ProM has been decreed as a distinctive aspect of memory that forms the logical,
natural complement of RetM, that is required for many everyday activities, and whose
breakdown may be as debilitating as impairments in RetM. Despite such sweeping
claims, however, ProM has received relatively little attention by mainstream memory
researchers, and the topic is frequently not even mentioned by introductory cognitive
psychology texts. The recent publication of the first book devoted entirely to ProM
(Brandimonte et al., 1996) may signal a turn in ProM’s visibility, but we are convinced
that achieving this goal will require altering the course charted by previous
investigations. For this reason, we urge ProM researchers to proceed by identifying
distinct subdomains of ProM and to focus research questions and theoretical accounts
more narrowly. We recommend that future research should focus on the relationship
between ProM proper and explicit episodic RetM. In order to set the stage for this
kind of work, we have identified various potential subdomains of ProM and singled
out ProM proper as that subdomain that seems most directly analogous to explicit
ProM has been decreed as a distinctive aspect of memory that forms the logical,
natural complement of RetM, that is required for many everyday activities, and whose
breakdown may be as debilitating as impairments in RetM. Despite such sweeping
claims, however, ProM has received relatively little attention by mainstream memory
researchers, and the topic is frequently not even mentioned by introductory cognitive
psychology texts. The recent publication of the first book devoted entirely to ProM
(Brandimonte et al., 1996) may signal a turn in ProM’s visibility, but we are convinced
that achieving this goal will require altering the course charted by previous
investigations. For this reason, we urge ProM researchers to proceed by identifying
distinct subdomains of ProM and to focus research questions and theoretical accounts
more narrowly. We recommend that future research should focus on the relationship
between ProM proper and explicit episodic RetM. In order to set the stage for this
kind of work, we have identified various potential subdomains of ProM and singled
out ProM proper as that subdomain that seems most directly analogous to explicit
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