Self-Monitoring Abilities of Two Adults With Traumatic Brain Injury During Verbal Learning

Adult survivors of traumatic brain injury (TBI) often display learning and executive function deficits. In this study, two adults with TBI and two control subjects were required to self-monitor their learning by making "judgment-of-learning" (JOL) predictions about future recall. Control subjects were highly accurate when predictions were delayed from the learning episode, but not as accurate when predictions were made immediately following learning. Delayed monitoring accuracy of subjects with TBI was the same as their immediate monitoring accuracy. One subject overpredicted his recall ability, whereas the other displayed poor relative predictive accuracy. Proportions of recall, predictions of recall, and correlations between recall and predictions were necessary in order to identify the different types of monitoring difficulty demonstrated by these subjects with TBI.

Key Words: brain injury, metacognition, metamemory, memory, recall

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