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Time-Based Prospective Memory in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Patients: The Involvement of Executive Functions and Time Perception

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2012

Giovanna Mioni ,
Franca Stablum ,
Shawn M. McClintock  and
Anna Cantagallo
Giovanna Mioni*
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale, Università di Padova, Padova, Italy
Franca Stablum
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale, Università di Padova, Padova, Italy
Shawn M. McClintock
Affiliation:
Department of Psychiatry, UT Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas Department of Psychiatry, Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute, New York, New York
Anna Cantagallo
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Neuroscienze/Riabilitazione Azienda Ospedaliero - Universitaria di Ferrara, Modulo di Neuropsicologia Riabilitativa, UMR, Ferrara, Italy
*
Correspondence and reprint requests to: Giovanna Mioni, Dipartimento di Psicologia Generale, Università di Padova, Via Venezia 8, 35131 Padova, Italy. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Prospective memory (PM) is the ability to remember to perform a future action at a specified later time, which is investigated through the use of event-based and time-based tasks. Prior investigations have found that PM is impaired following traumatic brain injury (TBI). However, there is limited information regarding the cognitive functions that mediate TBI and PM performance. Thus, this study investigated time-based PM in TBI patients, and the relationship among time-based PM, time perception, and executive functions. To accomplish this objective, 18 severe TBI patients and 18 healthy matched controls performed a time-based PM task, a time reproduction task, and two executive functions (Stroop and n-back) tasks. While both groups increased their monitoring frequency close to the target time, TBI patients monitored more and were less accurate than healthy controls at the target time confirming the time-based PM dysfunction in these patients. Importantly, executive functions, particularly inhibition and updating abilities, were strongly related to time-based PM performance; both time perception and executive functions are involved in time-based prospective memory in controls, whereas, only executive functions appear to be involved in TBI time-based prospective memory performance. (JINS, 2012, 18, 1–9)

Keywords

Time monitoringTime reproductionInhibitionUpdatingPatients studyCognitive disorder
Type
Research Articles
Information
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , July 2012 , pp. 697 - 705
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Copyright © The International Neuropsychological Society 2012

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