Metacognition in Schizophrenia: Processes Underlying Patients' Reflections on Their Own Episodic Memory

Working memory encoding and false memory in schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in a spatial delayed response task.

“…Together, these findings do not suggest a failure of metamemory monitoring in our patients, which is also consistent with recent reports on intact response monitoring in schizophrenia (Thakkar, Schall, Boucher, Logan, & Park, 2011). Even in the context of episodic LTM tasks, which demand monitoring processes to a higher degree than WM, PSZ show some preservation of their monitoring and control abilities (Bacon & Izaute, 2009; Bacon, Izaute, & Danion, 2007). …”

Metacognitive deficits predict future levels of negative symptoms in schizophrenia controlling for neurocognition, affect recognition, and self-expectation of goal attainment

“…Metacognition was originally used within the educational literature (Flavell, 1979) and since has been applied to numerous fields of study, including attachment, psychopathology, human development, and cognitive psychology (Main, 1991;Bacon and Izaute, 2009;Tarricone, 2011). Through this evolution, metacognition has been understood as a spectrum of activities which range from reflection about discrete mental experiences, such as recognizing a specific thought or emotion, to the synthesis of discrete perceptions into integrated representations of self and others as unique agents in the world (Semerari et al, 2003;Lysaker et al, 2013).…”

Memory-Related Metacognition in Patients with Schizophrenia

“…In the meantime, the prospective metamemory judgments of patients with schizophrenia are lower than those of healthy participants (Bacon et al, 2001;Bacon et al, 2007;Souchay et al, 2006;Thuaire et al, 2012. However, most of the time they are still able to discriminate between what they know and what they do not know, and their gamma correlations are usually higher than zero (Bacon and Izaute, 2009;Bacon et al, 2001;Bacon et al, 2007;Moritz and Woodward, 2006;Souchay et al, 2006;Thuaire et al, 2012). In addition, the mechanisms underlying the prospective FOK judgments for short-term memory and semantic memory seem to be grounded, as in healthy subjects (Koriat 1993;Koriat 1995), in the accessibility of partial information, products of memory recovery (Bacon and Izaute, 2008;Bacon and Izaute, 2009).…”