title: Priming and recognition in ECT-induced amnesia.
abstract: Priming and recognition were tested in patients receiving electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) for treatment of a psychiatric disorder. Patients studied a list of words just prior to ECT and then received memory tests for those words after recovering from ECT. Stem-cued recall was poor (retrograde amnesia), but priming on word-stem completion was preserved. Recognition was poor on a "high-criterion" test requiring a retrieval-based judgment but partially intact on a "low-criterion" test requiring a familiarity-based judgment. The results support the familiarity-retrieval distinction in two-component theories of recognition and suggest that signal detection measures of sensitivity are not wholly independent of response criteria.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, 38152, Memphis, TN.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Dorfman
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Kihlstrom
authors.forename: R C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Cork
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Misiaszek