Errorful learning improves recognition memory for new vocabulary for people living with memory and dysexecutive impairment following brain injury

Briscoe, Josie, Doherty, Joanna, Burgess, Katy and Kent, Christopher 2024. Errorful learning improves recognition memory for new vocabulary for people living with memory and dysexecutive impairment following brain injury. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation 34 (7) , pp. 974-1004. 10.1080/09602011.2023.2259017

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Abstract

A widely accepted view is that errorless learning is essential for supporting new learning in people with anterograde amnesia, but findings are mixed for those with a broader range of memory impairments. People at a chronic stage of recovery from brain injury (BI) with impaired memory and executive function (N = 26) were compared with adults in a comparison group without any known risks to brain function (N = 25). Learning techniques were compared using a “Generate-and-correct” and “Read-only” condition when learning novel word pairs. At test, both groups scored above chance and showed benefits of Generate-and-correct (errorful learning). Poor learners in the BI group were classified from “flat” learning slopes extracted from an independent word-pair learning task. Critically, poor learners showed no benefit, but also no decrement to learning, using the Generate-and-correct method. No group was harmed by errorful learning; all, except the poorest learners, benefitted from errorful learning. This study indicates, that in some rehabilitation settings, encouraging clients to guess the meaning of unfamiliar material (e.g., from cards, magazines, newspapers) and then correct their errors, could have benefits for recognition memory. Determining when and how errorful learning benefits learning is a key aim for future research.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Psychology
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis Group
ISSN:	0960-2011
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	25 September 2023
Date of Acceptance:	9 September 2023
Last Modified:	03 Sep 2024 15:00
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/162701

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