Reconstructing the temporal order of events is a crucial part of episodic memory. The temporal dimension, however, is often discarded in clinical settings, and measurements of true temporal aspects of episodic memory are scarce. The present study assessed temporal memory in stroke patients and in age- and education-matched healthy controls.
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April 2014
Loss of cognitive functions, as apparent through self-awareness, is considered an important indicator of cognitive deficits and is therefore commonly used in clinical practice. However, little is known about self-awareness of cognitive performance, including its accuracy, its basis, and whether people can distinguish their performance across different cognitive domains. In the present study, 20 university students (M (age) = 21.
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March 2012
Patients' cognitive complaints and subsequent performance on neuropsychological tests often fail to relate. This could, in part, be caused by a Babylonic incongruence between laypeople's and experts' use of cognition words or "jargon." The present study examined the concurrency of experts and laypeople for 18 neuropsychological tests in the cognitive domains "language," "memory," "attention/concentration," "perception," and "thinking" (executive functioning).
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