Research Article

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

Table 4

Mean (SD) percentage confidence assigned to answers for each pair type overall in the pair and associative identification tasks.

GroupMetacognitive sensitivity
NewHalf-oldRearrangedIntact

Pair task
Control
M (SD)83.01 (13.31)77.04 (15.03)80.79 (13.97)88.66 (9.47)
TLE
M (SD)70.76 (18.58)70.22 (14.31)71.21 (14.80)79.97 (14.13)

AI task
Control
M (SD)85.83 (16.77)85.93 (15.10)81.90 (13.93)86.34 (11.37)
TLE
M (SD)74.17 (19.31)73.37 (18.57)73.26 (17.30)79.55 (14.90)

Note: TLE = temporal lobe epilepsy; AI = associative identification.