Story Recall Test Research Articles

Different error pattern of episodic and semantic memory in Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease with dementia

To evaluate the possible differences in memory dysfunction we analysed the episodic and semantic memory of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and Parkinson's disease (PD) with dementia, and age-matched normal controls (NC). The memory was examined with story recall tests, list learning test with Buschke selective reminding method and category naming test. Both AD and PD groups committed more prior-story intrusion errors as compared with the NC subjects, but only the AD patients committed more extra-story intrusion errors. Both patient groups committed more extra-list intrusion errors than the NC group. Furthermore, the AD patients made more extra-list intrusion errors and recognized more false positive targets than the PD patients did. The results suggest that AD and PD patients have different patterns of memory dysfunction. The AD patients seem to perform poorly because of their inability to inhibit irrelevant information and because of increased sensitivity to interference, whereas the deficits of PD patients only reflect sensitivity to proactive interference.

Story and list recall tests as measures of verbal memory in a head-injured sample.

Story and list recall tests as measures of verbal memory in a head-injured sample.

Story and list recall tests as measures of verbal memory in a head-injured sample.

Story and list recall tests as measures of verbal memory in a head-injured sample.

Story and list recall tests as measures of verbal memory in a head-injured sample.

Story and list recall tests as measures of verbal memory in a head-injured sample.

Subjective memory assessment and test performance in elderly adults.

The everyday memory of a group of elderly adults was assessed using techniques developed for use with younger head-injured people (Sunderland et al., 1983). The participants completed a memory questionnaire and a daily checklist; their spouses gave their assessment using a separate questionnaire. These subjective methods showed only moderate agreement, and the questionnaire had low test-retest reliability. It appears that these methods of subjective memory assessment have little validity when used with normal elderly adults. Two positive findings did emerge: As in previous studies, a story recall test was the strongest predictor of reported memory performance; and despite a universal belief among elderly adults that their memory had deteriorated with age, very few of them felt that they were at all handicapped by forgetfulness in everyday life.

The Effect of Syntactic Structure and Children's Temporal Ability on the Comprehension of Spoken Prose

Abstarct The relationship between children's temporal ability and their comprehension of spoken prose as measured by a story recall test was studied using an incidental sample of 36 eleven‐year‐old subjects, The tests of temporal ability consisted of interval reproduction, interval division and pause perception. Significant correlations with total recall were obtained using all of these measures. The story details were analysed according to their syntactic predictability and presentation rate, and the subjects grouped in terms of their temporal ability as indexed by their performance on the interval reproduction test. Recall was best when syntactic predictability of the prose details was high, although there was no overall significant interaction with temporal ability. Presentation rate of the details interacted significantly #opP #lt0‐05#cp with temporal ability in its effect on recall. The nature of temporal ability and its role in information processing were discussed.

Slælelig Depressions Virkning På Indlæring

SummaryLearning In Depressive StatesMethodological and clinical pychological problemsTwelve depressive patients, among these eight with endogenous depression, were examined with a word-pair-test, a story recall test, a finger-maze, tests for digit span forwards and backwards, digit learning tests and a test for recognition of nonsense figures, In the first two of these tests both immediate and delayed recall were examined. When the patients were cured or much improved they were reexamined with parallel versions of the same tests.Fifteen other depressive patients were examined and reexamined in a clinically unaltered state with the parallel versions of the same tests. In this way it was shown that on most tests there were no transfer of training when the tests were, as was the case, administered with fairly detailled instructions.In the experimental group of 12 patients, most mean scores for learning were unchanged from the first to the second testing. On a few scores there were small, but significant, imp...

Effects of body awareness and aggressive activation on ego functioning of schizophrenics.

This study investigated the effects of bodily self-awareness and aggressive activation on the ego functioning of schizophrenics. 36 hospitalized male schizophrenics were seen in a balanced design for a control condition, a condition involving a “self-awareness manipulation” intended to reduce ego disturbance and a condition involving subliminal aggressive stimulation intended to increase disturbance. In response to the self-awareness condition, there was a significant improvement in ego functioning on two of six variables investigated, i.e., reduced pathological thinking on a story recall test and increased cognitive efficiency on a card-sorting test. After the aggressive condition there was significantly more ego disturbance on two of the six variables, i.e., increased pathological non-verbal behavior and reduced memory accuracy on the story recall test. These data were seen as offering support for (1) the thesis of Austin DesLauriers that increasing bodily self-awareness can be therapeutic for schizophrenics and (2) the formulation of Robert Bak and other psychoanalytic writers that implicates conflict over aggression as underlying ego disturbance in schizophrenia.