Retrieval practice improves memory in patients with schizophrenia: new perspectives for cognitive remediation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Schizophrenia is associated with severe cognitive deficits, particularly episodic memory deficits, that interfere with patients' socio-professional functioning. Retrieval practice (also known as testing effect) is a well-established episodic memory strategy that involves taking an initial memory test on a previously learned material. Testing later produces robust long-term memory improvements in comparison to the restudy of the same material both in healthy subjects and in some clinical populations with memory deficits. While retrieval practice might represent a relevant cognitive remediation strategy in patients with schizophrenia, studies using optimal procedures to explore the benefits of retrieval practice in this population are still lacking. Therefore, the purpose

SUBMITTER: Jantzi C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6849190 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature