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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Sleep Medicine
  • Psychology

Background:

  • External source monitoring is crucial for distinguishing memory origins.
  • Obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS) affects cognitive functions, including memory.
  • Hypoxia is a common consequence of OSAS and may impact brain function.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate external source monitoring in patients with OSAS.
  • To determine if OSAS patients exhibit increased source-confusion errors with similar external memory sources.
  • To explore the relationship between source-confusion errors and sleep-related hypoxia.

Main Methods:

  • Recruited 22 OSAS patients and 22 matched controls.
  • Utilized a three-phase procedure involving film viewing, photograph recognition (targets and lures), and source attribution.
  • Assessed source-confusion errors, differentiating between perceptual and conceptual lures.

Main Results:

  • OSAS patients and controls attributed target photographs equally.
  • OSAS patients made significantly more incorrect lure attributions than controls, especially for semantically similar lures.
  • Both perceptual and conceptual source-confusion errors correlated with nocturnal oxygen desaturation.

Conclusions:

  • OSAS patients exhibit impaired external source monitoring, particularly when memory sources are similar.
  • The deficit is linked to an inability to recall specific perceptual details.
  • Sleep-related hypoxia is identified as a primary contributor to these memory deficits in OSAS.