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Metamemory in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy: A Study of Sensitivity to Repetition at Encoding

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 February 2013

Charlotte E. Howard ,
Pilar Andrés  and
Giuliana Mazzoni
Charlotte E. Howard*
Affiliation:
Oxford Outcomes Ltd., an ICON plc company, Oxford, United Kingdom
Pilar Andrés
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain
Giuliana Mazzoni
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Hull, United Kingdom
*
Correspondence and reprint requests to: Charlotte E. Howard, Oxford Outcomes Ltd, Seacourt Tower, West Way, Oxford, OX2 0JJ, United Kingdom. E-mail: charlotte.howard@oxfordoutcomes.com
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Abstract

The purpose of the current study was to determine whether the level of metacognitive sensitivity previously observed in global Judgments-of-Learning (JOLs) in temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) patients could also be established when making item-by-item JOLs. Fourteen TLE patients and 14 control participants were compared on a memory task where 39 semantically unrelated word pairs were presented at three different levels of repetition. Thirteen word pairs were assigned to each level. A combined JOL and Feeling-of-Knowing (FOK) task was used to examine metamemory monitoring and control processes. The results showed that control participants outperformed TLE patients on recall and recognition. However, both groups were sensitive to repetition of the word pairs throughout the list, revealing intact online monitoring and control processes at encoding. These results are consistent with the findings of Howard et al. (2010) of intact metamemory in TLE patients and extend the findings of Andrés et al. (2010) of metamemory sensitivity from the global level to the item-by-item level. Finally, the current findings provide additional evidence of a dissociation between memory and metamemory in TLE patients. (JINS, 2013, 19, 1–10)

Keywords

MetacognitionJudgments-of-learningFeeling-of-knowingMonitoringControl processesRecall
Type
Research Articles
Information
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society , Volume 19 , Issue 4 , April 2013 , pp. 453 - 462
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Copyright © The International Neuropsychological Society 2013

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