The learned reinterpretation of fluency in amnesia

Neuropsychologia
Marie Geurten, Sylvie Willems

Abstract

Fluency is one of many cues that are involved in memory decisions. To date, however, the extent to which fluency-based decisions are preserved in amnesia is not yet clear. In this study, we tested and found differences in how patients with amnesia (n=8) and control participants (n=16) use fluency when making recognition decisions (Experiment 1). Our results suggested that these differences could be due to changes in the readiness with which patients attribute the subjective feeling of fluency to pre-exposure when an alternative explanation is available (i.e., the perceptual quality of the item). Secondly, we explored the hypothesis that changes in attribution processes in patients with amnesia are explained by a decrease in contingency between processing fluency and previous occurrence of stimuli in patients' daily lives, leading them to consider that fluency is not a relevant cue for memory (Experiment 2). Specifically, 42 healthy participants were put either in a condition where the positive contingency between fluent processing and previous encounters with an item was systematically confirmed (classic condition) or in a condition where the classical association between fluency and prior exposure was systematically reversed (...Continue Reading

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Aug 19, 2020·Child Development·Marie GeurtenMarianne Lloyd
Jan 4, 2020·The Behavioral and Brain Sciences·Christine BastinEric Salmon
Sep 26, 2020·Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society : JINS·Marie GeurtenChristine Bastin
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