title: Monitoring processes and metamemory experience in patients with dysexecutive syndrome.
abstract: The aim of the present study was to determine whether monitoring measures are differentially disturbed in dysexecutive patients after frontal lesions. Twelve dysexecutive patients and 12 healthy controls were administered a paired-associates learning task. Their performances on recall prediction, judgment-of-learning (JOL), and feeling-of-knowing judgment (FOK) were then compared. The results revealed that the two groups differed only on accuracy measures of the FOK paradigm. The study of the overall correlations between the three measures of metamemory revealed a significant relation between recall prediction and accuracy measures of the JOL. We failed to find any significant correlation with the accuracy measures of the FOK. Taken together, our data confirm that metamemory experience is not a unitary construct but rather a group of distinct and quite independent mechanisms.
authors.affiliation: Neuropsychology Unit, Department of Neurology, University Hospital of Angers, France.
authors.forename: Karine
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Pinon
authors.forename: Phillipe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Allain
authors.forename: Mohamed Zied
authors.initials: MZ
authors.lastname: Kefi
authors.forename: Frédéric
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Dubas
authors.forename: Didier
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Le Gall
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001039:Aphasia, Broca / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001076:Aptitude / Q000502:physiology*; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001364:Awareness / Q000502:physiology*; D001925:Brain Damage, Chronic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*; D003463:Cues; D005260:Female; D005625:Frontal Lobe / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D007600:Judgment; D008297:Male; D008570:Memory, Short-Term / Q000502:physiology*; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D010153:Paired-Associate Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D012016:Reference Values; D012153:Retention, Psychology / Q000502:physiology; D012718:Set, Psychology; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013577:Syndrome