Susceptibility to false memories in patients with ACoA aneurysm.
We examined ACoA patients regarding their susceptibility to a range of false memory phenomena. We targeted provoked confabulation, false recall and false recognition in the Deese-Roediger-McDermott-paradigm (DRM-paradigm) as well as false recognition in a mirror reading task. ACoA patients produced more provoked confabulations and more false recognition in mirror reading than comparison subjects. Conversely, false recall/false recognition in the DRM-paradigm were similar in patients and controls. Whereas the former two indices of false memories were correlated, no relationship was revealed with the DRM-paradigm. Our results suggest that rupture of ACoA aneurysm leads to an increased susceptibility to a subset of false memories types.
Borsutzky
Sabine
S
Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany. sabine.borsutzky@uni-bielefeld.de
Fujiwara
Esther
E
Brand
Matthias
M
Markowitsch
Hans J
HJ
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology; D004198:Disease Susceptibility / Q000209:etiology*; D056344:Executive Function / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D007360:Intelligence / Q000502:physiology; D002532:Intracranial Aneurysm / Q000150:complications*; D008297:Male; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011932:Reading; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology