Effects of fixed- and varied-context repetition on associative recognition in amnesia

This study compared the effects of fixed- and varied-context repetition on associative recognition in amnesia. Controls and amnesic participants were presented with a set of three-word phrases. Each was presented three times. In the varied-context condition, the verb changed with each presentation; in the fixed-context condition, it remained constant. At test, participants performed an associative-recognition task in which they were shown pairs of words from the study phase and asked to distinguish between intact and recombined pairs. For corrected recognition (hits - false alarms), controls performed better in the varied-context than in the fixed-context repetition condition, whereas amnesic participants' performance did not differ between conditions. Similarly, controls had lower false-alarm rates in the varied-context condition, but there was no significant effect of condition for the amnesic participants. Thus, varied-context repetition does not improve amnesic participants' performance on a recollection-dependent associative-recognition task, possibly because the amnesic participants were unable to take advantage of the additional cues that the varied-context encoding condition provided.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2010

Erschienen:

2010

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:16

Enthalten in:

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS - 16(2010), 4 vom: 01. Juli, Seite 596-602

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Greenberg, Daniel L [VerfasserIn]
Verfaellie, Mieke [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Clinical Trial
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

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Date Completed 23.09.2010

Date Revised 12.03.2024

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1017/S1355617710000287

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM197184006