2016
DOI: 10.1080/09602011.2016.1216000
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The benefits of errorless learning for people with amnestic mild cognitive impairment

Abstract: The aim of this study was to explore whether errorless learning leads to better outcomes than errorful learning in people with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (MCI), and to examine whether accuracy in error recognition relates to any observed benefit of errorless over errorful learning. Nineteen participants with a clinical diagnosis of amnestic MCI were recruited. A word-list learning task was used and learning was assessed by free recall, cued recall and recognition tasks. Errorless learning was significa… Show more

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“…Correct responses drove improvements in performance. This is consistent with observations that amnesia patients (who rely on implicit learning) acquire new skills more rapidly, and retain them longer, with errorless learning (Squires et al, 1997; Evans et al, 2000; Maxwell et al, 2001; Poolton et al, 2005; Roberts et al 2016). …”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 91%
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“…Correct responses drove improvements in performance. This is consistent with observations that amnesia patients (who rely on implicit learning) acquire new skills more rapidly, and retain them longer, with errorless learning (Squires et al, 1997; Evans et al, 2000; Maxwell et al, 2001; Poolton et al, 2005; Roberts et al 2016). …”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 91%
“…Prior studies have shown that implicit learning relies more on correct than error feedback. For example, skill learning in amnesia patients is better when correct feedback is emphasized (Evans et al, 2000; Squires et al, 1997; Roberts at al., 2016; Maxwell et al, 2001; Poolton et al, 2005). The different use of feedback information for learning seemed to divide our Match and Saccade tasks.…”
Section: Resultsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Possibly, the impact of error frequency on learning outcome has a more profound influence on memory performance in patients with cognitive impairments, as suggested by Baddeley and Wilson [30]. Future research should explore this assumption in patients with impaired episodic memory and/or deficits in the error-monitoring system, such as older individuals with subjective cognitive complaints at risk for further decline to help them optimize their memory [31], or patients with mild cognitive impairment or dementia, in whom the underlying mechanisms of EL have been scarcely studied [32,33]. Our experimental task, in which errors are systematically controlled for, may help to gain a better understanding of the underlying cognitive mechanisms of the learning capacity in cognitively impaired individuals with possible consequences for cognitive rehabilitation.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 90%
“…For example, it has been repeatedly shown that people with MCI learn new information best if they are prevented from making errors while learning. [104][105][106] Efforts to train working memory using adaptive approaches, meaning that the task becomes more difficult as individuals improve on the task, have shown improvements in working memory, but limited generalization to other cognitive domains. 107,108 Likewise, trials of memory recollection training have shown limited generalization.…”
Section: Treatment Of MCImentioning
confidence: 99%