Journal article
Memory self-awareness and memory self-monitoring following severe closed-head injury
Brain injury, Vol.18(10), pp.997-1016
10/01/2004
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/101445
PMID: 15370899
Abstract
Objective: To examine the accuracy of memory self-awareness and memory self-monitoring abilities in participants with severe closed-head injury (CHI).
Design and methods: A performance-prediction paradigm was used to evaluate meta-memory abilities in 31 participants with severe CHI (>1 year post-injury) and 31 controls. To assess memory self-awareness, before completing story recall, visual reproduction and list learning memory tasks, participants predicted the amount of information they would remember for each task. Memory self-monitoring was evaluated by examining participants' ability to increase the accuracy of their predictions following experience with each memory task.
Results: Although participants with CHI exhibited poorer recall than controls, they were equally aware of how differing task demands influence recall. They also successfully modified their predictions following task exposure.
Conclusions: Meta-memory was better preserved than actual memory performance. It may be possible to build on meta-memory skills to help patients with CHI more consistently use strategies that aid memory performance.
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Details
- Title
- Memory self-awareness and memory self-monitoring following severe closed-head injury
- Creators
- Maureen Schmitter-EdgecombeEllen Woo
- Publication Details
- Brain injury, Vol.18(10), pp.997-1016
- Academic Unit
- Psychology, Department of
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Identifiers
- 99900546689701842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article