Feeling the ease: how the use of oral motor fluency changes in amnesia

[en] The present study examined the evolution observed in amnesic patients’ use of motor fluency when making recognition memory decisions. In this experiment, 9 patients with amnesia and 18 matched controls were presented with two recognition memory tasks composed of 3 types of items: (a) natural words, (b) nonwords difficult to pronounce, and (c) nonwords easy to pronounce, the latter having been shown to be processed in a surprisingly fluent manner as long as participants can articulate them at a subvocal level (i.e., oral motor fluency). Our results provide evidence that the motor-movement manipulation was successful to induce a fluency effect. More specifically, data revealed that both amnesic patients and control participants showed a pattern of response consistent with the use of fluency as a cue to memory for studied items. However, only control participants relied on fluency to increase their rate of “yes” responses for unstudied items. These results suggest that patients with amnesia set a more conservative response criterion before relying on oral motor fluency, showing a pattern consistent with the idea that fluency is only used as a cue to memory when it exceeds a certain threshold. These findings are discussed in terms of adaptative metacognition strategies implemented by amnesic patients to reduce fluency-based memory errors as well as in terms of the variations that seem to occur in these strategies depending on the type of fluency that is experienced.

Disciplines :

Theoretical & cognitive psychology

Author, co-author :

Geurten, Marie ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Neuropsychologie

Bastin, Christine ; Université de Liège - ULiège > GIGA CRC In vivo Imaging - Aging & Memory

Willems, Sylvie ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Clinique psychologique et logopédique universitaire (CPLU)

Language :

English

Title :

Feeling the ease: how the use of oral motor fluency changes in amnesia

Publication date :

2022

Journal title :

Journal of Neuropsychology

ISSN :

1748-6645

eISSN :

1748-6653

Publisher :

Wiley-Blackwell, United States

Volume :

Pages :

373-388

Peer reviewed :

Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Funders :

F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique [BE]

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