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Progress These issues have diverted attention away Remembering the past to imagine from the relationship between future event simulation and memory processes in humans. During the past year, however, the growing the future: the prospective brain number of papers published on this topic have changed this situation dramatically. Daniel L. Schacter, Donna Rose Addis and Randy L. Buckner Insights from memory impairments Abstract | A rapidly growing number of recent studies show that imagining Early indications of a link between the the future depends on much of the same neural machinery that is needed processing of past and future events were provided by observations of patients with for remembering the past. These findings have led to the concept of the prospective memory impairments. In a seminal descrip- brain; an idea that a crucial function of the brain is to use stored information tion of patients with Korsakoff ’s amnesia, to imagine, simulate and predict possible future events. We suggest that processes