Journal article
Feeling-of-Knowing in Episodic Memory following Moderate-to-Severe Closed-head Injury
Neuropsychology, Vol.21(2), pp.224-234
03/2007
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/111180
PMCID: PMC2262102
PMID: 17402822
Abstract
The ability to accurately monitor one’s memory is a metacognitive process that is important in everyday life. In this study, we examined episodic memory feeling-of-knowing (FOK) ratings in 21 moderate-to-severe closed-head injury (CHI) participants (> 1 year post injury) and 21 controls. Participants studied 36 critical cue-target word pairs. Following a brief delay, they were asked to recall the target that corresponded to a given cue. Confidence ratings were made for recalled words and FOK judgments were made for non-recalled words in terms of the likelihood of recognizing the target word on a subsequent recognition test. We found that CHI participants demonstrated less accurate recall but accurate ability to judge their recall performance (retrospective memory monitoring). CHI participants also demonstrated intact feeling-of-knowing judgments when providing binary judgments, but demonstrated difficulties making finer discriminations on an ordinal scale (prospective memory monitoring). These findings suggest that memory monitoring is not a unitary construct. It is proposed that CHI participants may display intact memory monitoring when predictions are based on familiarity assessment but not when continued probing for additional episodic information is required.
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- Title
- Feeling-of-Knowing in Episodic Memory following Moderate-to-Severe Closed-head Injury
- Creators
- Maureen Schmitter-Edgecombe - Department of Psychology, P.O. Box 4820, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164-4820Jonathan W Anderson - Department of Psychology, 151 Martin Hall, Eastern Washington University
- Publication Details
- Neuropsychology, Vol.21(2), pp.224-234
- Academic Unit
- Psychology, Department of
- Identifiers
- 99900547472001842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article