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- Title
Memory in Social Interactions: The Effects of Introspection on Destination Memory in Traumatic Brain Injury.
- Authors
El Haj, Mohamad; Moustafa, Ahmed A.; Allain, Philippe
- Abstract
Destination memory, which is the ability to remember to whom one has sent information, is intimately associated with social cognition. We assessed whether processing attributes of destinations would improve destination memory in patients with traumatic brain injury (TBI). In this cross-sectional study, we tested the destination memory of 24 patients with TBI and 25 control participants in two conditions. On the first one (control condition), we invited participants to tell proverbs to celebrities' faces in order to decide, on a subsequent recognition test, whether they previously told that proverb to that celebrity or not. On the second condition (experimental introspection condition), the same procedures were repeated. However, after telling the proverbs, we invited participants to introspect about what the destination might believe about the proverbs (e.g., "What do you think that the celebrities would think about the proverbs?"). Group comparisons demonstrated better destination memory after the introspection than when no introspection was implemented in control participants, but there were no significant differences between the two conditions in patients with TBI. However, analyses of individual profiles demonstrated that more than half (n = 13) of the patients with TBI demonstrated better destination memory after introspection. While these results demonstrate a beneficial effect of introspection on destination memory for some cases of patients with TBI, more research is needed to reveal how introspection may influence patients' memory in social interactions.
- Subjects
EPISODIC memory; COLLECTIVE memory; BRAIN injuries; SOCIAL interaction; INTROSPECTION; PROSPECTIVE memory
- Publication
Brain Sciences (2076-3425), 2023, Vol 13, Issue 9, p1250
- ISSN
2076-3425
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/brainsci13091250