MEMORY AND METAMEMORY - A STUDY OF THE FEELING-OF-KNOWING PHENOMENON IN AMNESIC PATIENTS
MEMORY AND METAMEMORY - A STUDY OF THE FEELING-OF-KNOWING PHENOMENON IN AMNESIC PATIENTS
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DOI:
10.1037/0278-7393.12.3.452
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发表时间:
1986-07-01
影响因子:
2.6
通讯作者:
SQUIRE, LR
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作者:
SHIMAMURA, AP;SQUIRE, LR
Tested accuracy of the feeling of knowing in 2 experiments, using 8 patients with Korsakoff's syndrome (mean age 54 yrs), 8 electroconvulsive shock therapy (ECT) patients (mean age 46.5 yrs), 4 Ss (mean age 47 yrs) with other causes of amnesia, 2 alcoholic control groups (7 Ss with a mean age of 47.6 yrs and 19 Ss with a mean age of 48.5 yrs), and 18 healthy controls (mean age 49 yrs). In Exp I, feeling-of-knowing accuracy for the answers to general information questions that could not be recalled was tested. Ss were asked to rank nonrecalled questions in terms of how likely they thought they would be to recognize the answers and were then given a recognition test for these items. Only Korsakoff's syndrome Ss were impaired in making feeling-of-knowing predictions. The other amnesic Ss were as accurate as control Ss in their feeling-of-knowing predictions. In Exp II, these findings were replicated in a sentence memory paradigm that tested newly learned information. Results show that impaired metamemory is not an obligatory feature of amnesia, because amnesia can occur without detectable metamemory deficits. The impaired metamemory exhibited by patients with Korsakoff's syndrome reflects a cognitive impairment that is not typically observed in other forms of amnesia.(50 ref)(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)