Abstract
Subjective self-reports of difficulties with memory are relatively common in people with epilepsy, though these do not always align with performance on objective memory tasks. The current study gathered qualitative and quantitative subjective reports of memory function in a group of people with epilepsy who were recruited via the charity Epilepsy Action, along with controls. Participants also carried out one of two recently developed experimental tasks (Crimes or Four Doors) that provide objective measures of long-term memory and forgetting, along with an additional verbal learning and recall task, each of which assess retention over a one-week period. Relative to controls, people with epilepsy reported memory problems across all the subjective measures, while also showing more objective forgetting on Crimes and Four Doors. When combining the epilepsy and control samples, subjective forgetting and memory satisfaction correlated with objective delayed recall and forgetting. Within the epilepsy sample, delayed recall correlated with subjectively experienced forgetting. These findings provide new evidence for subjective and objective memory difficulties in epilepsy and indicate the need for development of appropriate tools to detect atypical forgetting in this population.
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Divisions: | School of Humanities and Social Sciences |
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Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yebeh.2025.110519 |
Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Publisher: | Elsevier BV |
Additional Information: | © 2025 The Author(s) |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Crimes test; Epilepsy; Four Doors test; Long-term forgetting; Objective memory; Subjective memory; 5204 Cognitive and Computational Psychology; 52 Psychology; Neurosciences; Neurodegenerative; Clinical Research; Epilepsy; Behavioral and Social Science; Mental Health; Brain Disorders; Neurological; Mental health; 1103 Clinical Sciences; Neurology & Neurosurgery; 3209 Neurosciences; 5202 Biological psychology; 5203 Clinical and health psychology |
SWORD Depositor: | Symplectic |
Depositing User (symplectic) | Deposited by Ghaith, Ahmed on behalf of Kemp, Steven |
Date Deposited: | 28 Aug 2025 15:11 |
Last Modified: | 01 Sep 2025 06:19 |
Item Type: | Article |
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