The role of frontal and temporal lobe processes in prospective remembering

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the neuroanatomical cor relates of prospective remembering. Individuals who had undergone a left an terior temporal lobectomy (LATL) and patients who had been operated on for treatment of an anterior communicating artery (ACoA) aneurysm were compared on measures of prospective remembering, retrospective memory, and executiv e function. A series of analyses of variance revealed the LATL group to be impaired on prospective and retrospective memory while the ACoA aneurysm gr oup was impaired on prospective remembering alone. The results of the curre nt study (1) shed some light on the neuroanatomical substrate of prospectiv e remembering, and, (2) demonstrate the clinical utility of prospective rem embering testing in evaluating recovery from brain injury. (C) 2000 Academi c Press.