Assessing a Metacognitive Account of Associative Memory Impairments in Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

Table 2

Summary of neuropsychological assessment (standard deviation in parentheses).

Test	TLE	Controls	statistic	value
WASI (index scores)
VIQ	105.21 (15.39)	105.72 (14.92)	0.01	0.92
PIQ	102.63 (12.72)	109.72 (13.69)	2.74	0.11
FSIQ	104.76 (13.58)	108.94 (13.65)	0.94	0.34
BMIPB (z-scores)
Figure immediate	−1.35 (1.12)	0.06 (1.18)	14.56	0.001
Figure delayed	−0.88 (−0.88)	0.39 (0.91)	19.64	0.001
List learning	−0.28 (1.38)	0.33 (1.14)	2.20	0.15
Postinterference list	−0.61 (1.18)	0.28 (0.73)	7.74	0.01
Story immediate	−1.13 (1.15)	−0.06 (0.77)	11.20	0.002
Story delayed	−1.26 (1.02)	0.11 (0.93)	19.33	0.001
WRMT (raw scores)
Words	44.00 (4.41)	48.22 (1.66)	14.74	0.001
Faces	39.00 (6.13)	43.44 (4.10)	6.90	0.01
D-KEFS fluency (-scores)
FAS verbal	−0.55 (1.04)	0.13 (0.96)	1.78	0.19
Category	−0.49 (0.98)	0.07 (0.90)	1.97	0.17
Max. digit span forward	7.00 (1.11)	6.94 (1.06)	0.03	0.87
Max. digit span backward	5.23 (1.34)	5.78 (1.17)	1.83	0.19
HADS (raw scores)
Anxiety	8.59 (3.88)	5.83 (3.47)	5.52	0.02
Depression	4.80 (2.98)	3.56 (2.81)	1.82	0.19

Note: TLE = temporal lobe epilepsy, NART = National Adult Reading Test [33], WASI = Wechsler Abbreviated Scale of Intelligence [34], VIQ = verbal IQ, PIQ = performance IQ, FSIQ = full scale IQ, BMIPB = BIRT Memory and Information Processing Battery [35], WRMT = Warrington Recognition Memory Test [36], D-KEFS = Delis-Kaplan Executive Function Scale [37], and HADS = hospital anxiety and depression rating scale [38].