Memory and witness testimony: what the psychiatrist cannot know

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-34
Author(s):  
Norman A. Poole
Keyword(s):  
Witness Testimony ◽  
Memory Assessment

SUMMARYPsychiatrists called on to assess the reliability of witness testimony in the courts enter an arena fraught with uncertainties. This commentary discusses Commane & Kopelman's exploration of both the ‘normal’ fallibility of memory and disordered memory and considers the unavoidable limitations of their guidance on memory assessment and medico-legal work.

Hearing loss and verbal memory assessment among older adults.

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina G. Wong ◽  
Lisa J. Rapport ◽  
Brooke A. Billings ◽  
Virginia Ramachandran ◽  
Brad A. Stach
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Hearing Loss ◽  
Verbal Memory ◽  
Memory Assessment

Ecologically relevant episodic memory assessment indicates an attenuated age-related memory loss – A virtual reality study.

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 680-689 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlon O. Pflueger ◽  
Rolf-Dieter Stieglitz ◽  
Patrick Lemoine ◽  
Thomas Leyhe
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Episodic Memory ◽  
Memory Loss ◽  
Memory Assessment ◽  
Age Related

Issues in Memory Assessment of the Elderly

1989 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 565-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
David W. Loring ◽  
Gregory P. Lee ◽  
Kimford J. Meador
Keyword(s):  
The Elderly ◽  
Memory Assessment

A Study on Developing a Working Memory Assessment Tool

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 139-162
Author(s):  
Tae-Kwon Son ◽  
Chang-keun Sung ◽  
Kwang-Ho Lee
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Memory Assessment

scholarly journals Selectively Interfering With Intrusive but Not Voluntary Memories of a Trauma Film: Accounting for the Role of Associative Memory

2021 ◽  
pp. 216770262199831
Author(s):  
Alex Lau-Zhu ◽  
Richard N. Henson ◽  
Emily A. Holmes
Keyword(s):  
Emotional Disorders ◽  
Traumatic Event ◽  
Emotional Memory ◽  
Control Procedure ◽  
Witness Testimony ◽  
Intrusive Memories ◽  
Therapeutic Benefits ◽  
Selective Interference ◽  
Intrusive Memory

Intrusive memories of a traumatic event can be reduced by a subsequent interference procedure, seemingly sparing voluntary memory for that event. This selective-interference effect has potential therapeutic benefits (e.g., for emotional disorders) and legal importance (e.g., for witness testimony). However, the measurements of intrusive memory and voluntary memory typically differ in the role of associations between a cue and the emotional memory “hotspots.” To test this, we asked participants to watch a traumatic film followed by either an interference procedure (reminder plus Tetris) or control procedure (reminder only). Measurement of intrusions (using a laboratory task) and voluntary memory (recognition for film stills) were crossed with the presence or absence of associative cues. The reminder-plus-Tetris group exhibited fewer intrusions despite comparable recognition memory, replicating the results of prior studies. Note that this selective interference did not appear to depend on associative cues. This involuntary versus voluntary memory dissociation for emotional material further supports separate-trace memory theories and has applied advantages.

scholarly journals A multi-component, adaptive Working Memory Assessment Battery (WoMAB): validation and norms in an Italian population sample

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabrizio Pasotti ◽  
Giulia De Luca ◽  
Edoardo Nicolò Aiello ◽  
Chiara Gramegna ◽  
Marco Di Gangi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Working Memory ◽  
Neurological Disorders ◽  
Digit Span ◽  
Population Sample ◽  
Italian Population ◽  
Everyday Functioning ◽  
Assessment Battery ◽  
Memory Assessment ◽  
Test Digit ◽  
Healthy Participants

Abstract Background Working memory (WM) abilities are frequently impaired in neurological disorders affecting fronto-parietal cortical/sub-cortical structures. WM deficits negatively influence interventional outcomes and everyday functioning. This study thus aimed at the following: (a) developing and standardizing an ecologically valid task for WM assessment ( Ice Cream Test, ICT); (b) validating and norming a novel WM test (Digit Ordering Test, DOT), as well as providing updated norms for digit span (DS) tasks, in an Italian population sample; (c) introducing a novel scoring procedure for measuring WM. Methods One-hundred and sixty-eight Italian healthy participants—73 male, 95 females; age: 48.4 ± 19.1 (18–86); education: 12.1 ± 4.8 (4–21)—underwent a thorough WM assessment—DOT, ICT, and both forward and backward DS tasks (FDS, BDS). The ICT requires participants to act as waiters who have to keep track of customers’ orders. For each task, WM and total (T) outcomes were computed, i.e., the number of elements in the longest sequence and that of recalled sequences, respectively. Norms were derived via the equivalent score (ES) method. Results DS ratios (DSRs) were computed for both WM/S and T outcomes on raw DS measures (BDS divided by FDS). Age and education significantly predicted all WM tasks; sex affected FDS and DSR-T scores (males > females). WM measures were highly internally related. Discussion The present work provides Italian practitioners with a normatively updated, multi-component, adaptive battery for WM assessment (WoMAB) as well as with novel outcomes which capture different WM facets—WM capacity and attentive monitoring abilities.

scholarly journals Validation of memory assessment in the Starmaze task: Data from 14 month-old APPPS1 mice and controls

Data in Brief ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 107266
Author(s):  
Schmitt Julien ◽  
Paradis Anne-Lise ◽  
Boucher Mathieu ◽  
Andrieu Laurent ◽  
Barnéoud Pascal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Memory Assessment
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