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  • Title: Retrieval inhibition in directed forgetting following severe closed-head injury.
    Author: Schmitter-Edgecombe M, Marks W, Wright MJ, Ventura M.
    Journal: Neuropsychology; 2004 Jan; 18(1):104-14. PubMed ID: 14744193.
    Abstract:
    A variant of the list method directed forgetting procedure was used to examine the role of inhibition in memory performance following severe closed-head injury (CHI). Twenty-four participants with severe CHI and 24 controls studied picture and word stimuli in both forget and remember conditions. Memory testing for the to-be-forgotten and to-be-remembered items consisted of a free-recall test followed by a source-monitoring task. Despite poorer recall performance, the participants with CHI exhibited a directed forgetting effect similar to that in controls. Item recognition scores indicated that the inhibited items were not forgotten but rather were items whose accessibility had been lowered. These findings suggest that residual memory deficits in patients with severe CHI are unlikely to reflect inefficient retrieval inhibition.
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