TY - JOUR

T1 - The benefits of errorless learning for people with amnestic mild cognitive impairment

AU - Roberts, Judith

AU - Anderson, Nicole D.

AU - Guild, Emma

AU - Cyr, Andree-Ann

AU - Jones, Robert

AU - Clare, Linda

PY - 2018

Y1 - 2018

N2 - Objective: 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.Method: 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.Results: Errorless learning was significantly superior to errorful learning for both free recall and cued recall. The benefits of errorless learning were less marked in participants with better error recognition ability.Conclusions: Errorless learning methods are likely to prove more effective than errorful methods learning for those people with MCI whose ability to monitor and detect their own errors is impaired.

AB - Objective: 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.Method: 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.Results: Errorless learning was significantly superior to errorful learning for both free recall and cued recall. The benefits of errorless learning were less marked in participants with better error recognition ability.Conclusions: Errorless learning methods are likely to prove more effective than errorful methods learning for those people with MCI whose ability to monitor and detect their own errors is impaired.

KW - Errorless learning

KW - Neuropsychology

KW - Implicit memory

KW - Error recognition

KW - Executive Function

U2 - 10.1080/09602011.2016.1216000

DO - 10.1080/09602011.2016.1216000

M3 - Article

VL - 28

SP - 984

EP - 996

JO - Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

JF - Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

SN - 0960-2011

IS - 6

ER -