This study examines the event-related brain potential (ERP) correlates of retrieval processes in prospective and retrospective memory (i.e., recognition and cued-recall). In contrast to previous research that has compared performance on tasks measuring prospective and retrospective memory, the stimulus materials and encoding and response demands of the prospective and retrospective components o...

Prospective remembering has been relatively underinvestigated in neurological patients. This paper describes a group study in which the prospective memory performance of 36 people with brain injury and 28 control participants is compared. We used a new instrument, the Cambridge Behaviour Prospective Memory Test (CBPMT) to assess prospective memory. This comprises 4 time-based and 4 event-based ...

The present study examines the relationship between prospective memory performance and executive functioning. The four phases of the prospective memory process intention formation, intention retention, reinstantiation of the intention, and intention execution are assumed to require different amounts of executive processing, the most of which being demanded in the phases of intention formation a...

Prospective memory is critical to everyday functioning and can be vulnerable to distraction. We conducted an experiment to explore whether we could buffer prospective memory against distraction. For half the participants, we preexposed stimuli that were later designated as prospective memory targets. Then, all participants performed an ongoing task (in which the prospective memory task was embe...