Elaborative processing in the Korsakoff syndrome: context versus habit |
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Authors: | Van Damme Ilse d'Ydewalle Géry |
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Affiliation: | aDepartment of Psychology, University of Leuven, Tiensestraat 102, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium |
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Abstract: | Using a procedure of Hay and Jacoby [Hay, J. F., & Jacoby, L. L. (1999). Separating habit and recollection in young and older adults: Effects of elaborative processing and distinctiveness. Psychology and Aging, 14, 122–134], Korsakoff patients’ capacity to encode and retrieve elaborative, semantic information was investigated. Habits were created during initial training, whereupon cued-recall memory performance was examined, with habit opposing as well as facilitating recollection of earlier studied words. A first group of patients was instructed and tested in the same way as healthy controls and showed poor test performance. Nevertheless, when given more processing and response time, additional explanation, and explicit encouragement, a second group of patients performed similarly to healthy controls. The results suggest that, when given adequate support, Korsakoff patients are able to encode and make use of semantic, contextual, and sequential information. Word distinctiveness, however, only influenced performance of controls. |
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Keywords: | Korsakoff patients Amnesia Semantic processing Explicit memory Process-dissociation procedure Associations |
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