Does collaboration with an intimate partner support memory performance? An exploratory case series of people with epilepsy or acquired brain injury.

BACKGROUND: Intimate couples can become cognitively interdependent over time. If one member of the couple has a neurological condition with associated cognitive impairments, their partner can support or 'scaffold' their cognitive functioning through collaboration. OBJECTIVE: We explored the phenomen...

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Publicado en:NeuroRehabilitation Vol. 45; no. 3; pp. 385 - 401
Autores principales: Baird, Amee, Harris, Celia B., Harris, Sophia A., Sutton, John, Miller, Laurie A., Barnier, Amanda J.
Formato: case study research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. 2019
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          Baird, Amee
          Harris, Celia B.
          Harris, Sophia A.
          Sutton, John
          Miller, Laurie A.
          Barnier, Amanda J.
        affil: Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia
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          Spouses
          Collaboration
          Memory Evaluation
          Epilepsy Diagnosis
          Brain Injuries Diagnosis
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          Task Performance and Analysis
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      ab: BACKGROUND: Intimate couples can become cognitively interdependent over time. If one member of the couple has a neurological condition with associated cognitive impairments, their partner can support or 'scaffold' their cognitive functioning through collaboration. OBJECTIVE: We explored the phenomenon of 'collaborative memory' in a case series of 9 couples in which one member had a neurological condition, specifically an acquired brain injury (ABI; n = 7) or epilepsy (n = 2). METHODS: To investigate collaborative memory, we compared the performance of the patient when remembering alone versus their performance in collaboration with their partner on three memory tasks, assessing anterograde, semantic, and autobiographical memory. RESULTS: We found that across all tasks and participants, collaboration typically increased overall memory performance (total score), but the patient's contribution to the task was typically lower when they collaborated compared with when they performed the task alone. We identified two distinct styles of collaboration which we termed 'survival scaffolding' (where the healthy partner 'takes over' memory recall) and 'stability scaffolding' (where the healthy partner cues and structures the patient's recall). CONCLUSION: This exploratory case series contributes to the sparse literature on memory collaboration in people with neurological conditions. Our findings suggest that there are different styles of collaboration that can both help and hinder memory performance.
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