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Accelerated forgetting? An evaluation on the use of long-term forgetting rates in patients with memory problems

The main focus of this review was to evaluate whether long-term forgetting rates (delayed tests, days, to weeks, after initial learning) are more sensitive measures than standard delayed recall measures to detect memory problems in various patient groups. It has been suggested that accelerated forge...

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Autores principales: Geurts, Sofie, van der Werf, Sieberen P., Kessels, Roy P. C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4460323/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26106343
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00752
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description The main focus of this review was to evaluate whether long-term forgetting rates (delayed tests, days, to weeks, after initial learning) are more sensitive measures than standard delayed recall measures to detect memory problems in various patient groups. It has been suggested that accelerated forgetting might be characteristic for epilepsy patients, but little research has been performed in other populations. Here, we identified eleven studies in a wide range of brain injured patient groups, whose long-term forgetting patterns were compared to those of healthy controls. Signs of accelerated forgetting were found in three studies. The results of eight studies showed normal forgetting over time for the patient groups. However, most of the studies used only a recognition procedure, after optimizing initial learning. Based on these results, we recommend the use of a combined recall and recognition procedure to examine accelerated forgetting and we discuss the relevance of standard and optimized learning procedures in clinical practice.
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spelling pubmed-44603232015-06-23 Accelerated forgetting? An evaluation on the use of long-term forgetting rates in patients with memory problems Geurts, Sofie van der Werf, Sieberen P. Kessels, Roy P. C. Front Psychol Psychology The main focus of this review was to evaluate whether long-term forgetting rates (delayed tests, days, to weeks, after initial learning) are more sensitive measures than standard delayed recall measures to detect memory problems in various patient groups. It has been suggested that accelerated forgetting might be characteristic for epilepsy patients, but little research has been performed in other populations. Here, we identified eleven studies in a wide range of brain injured patient groups, whose long-term forgetting patterns were compared to those of healthy controls. Signs of accelerated forgetting were found in three studies. The results of eight studies showed normal forgetting over time for the patient groups. However, most of the studies used only a recognition procedure, after optimizing initial learning. Based on these results, we recommend the use of a combined recall and recognition procedure to examine accelerated forgetting and we discuss the relevance of standard and optimized learning procedures in clinical practice. Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-06-09 /pmc/articles/PMC4460323/ /pubmed/26106343 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00752 Text en Copyright © 2015 Geurts, van der Werf and Kessels. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title_full Accelerated forgetting? An evaluation on the use of long-term forgetting rates in patients with memory problems
title_fullStr Accelerated forgetting? An evaluation on the use of long-term forgetting rates in patients with memory problems
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title_short Accelerated forgetting? An evaluation on the use of long-term forgetting rates in patients with memory problems
title_sort accelerated forgetting? an evaluation on the use of long-term forgetting rates in patients with memory problems
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4460323/
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