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Published on: June 29, 2016
Judgment and memory performance for emotional stimuli in patients with alcoholic Korsakoff syndrome
Kirsten Labudda1, Saso Todorovski, Hans J Markowitsch
1Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany. kirsten.labudda@uni-bielefeld.de
Abstract:
In this study we investigated whether alcoholic Korsakoff patients are impaired in categorizing neutral and emotional stimuli according to their valence and whether memory performance for this material is reduced. In a group of Korsakoff patients and a comparison group two experimental tasks--one containing emotional and neutral pictures and the other containing words-were administered. Results showed that patients had difficulties in affective judgments due to problems in classifying neutral stimuli. Memory for emotional and neutral material was impaired to a similar degree. Thus, the facilitating effect of emotional valence on memory performance is absent in Korsakoff patients.
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