Wilu Wilu Amina, Allain Philippe, Moustafa Ahmed A, El Haj Mohamad
Centre Hospitalier de Tourcoing, Unité de Gériatrie, Tourcoing, France.
Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire (EA 4638), Université d'Angers, Angers, France.
Appl Neuropsychol Adult. 2021 Jan-Feb;28(1):1-11. doi: 10.1080/23279095.2019.1585350. Epub 2019 Mar 19.
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) has been widely associated with impairment of social cognition. We therefore investigated the relationship between the ability to infer and predict other's mental states (i.e., Theory of Mind, ToM) and the ability to remember to whom one has sent information (i.e., destination memory). We invited patients with TBI and control subjects, on a destination memory task, to tell proverbs to pictures of celebrities, so as to remember to which celebrity they had previously told the proverbs. Participants also performed affective (i.e., Reading the Mind in the Eyes) and cognitive (i.e., the false belief) tests of ToM. Results demonstrated lower destination memory, affective, and cognitive ToM performance in TBI patients than in control subjects. Critically, analysis demonstrated significant positive correlations between destination memory and first order and second cognitive order ToM in patients with TBI, but no significant correlations between destination memory and affective ToM in these patients. Our results demonstrate a relationship between difficulties of TBI patients to infer and predict cognitive states of interlocutors and difficulties to remember to which interlocutor information has been told.
创伤性脑损伤（TBI）与社会认知障碍广泛相关。因此，我们研究了推断和预测他人心理状态的能力（即心理理论，ToM）与记住信息发送对象的能力（即目标记忆）之间的关系。我们邀请了创伤性脑损伤患者和对照组受试者参与一项目标记忆任务，让他们针对名人图片讲述谚语，以便记住之前是对哪位名人讲述了这些谚语。参与者还进行了心理理论的情感测试（即“眼神读心术”）和认知测试（即错误信念测试）。结果表明，与对照组受试者相比，创伤性脑损伤患者的目标记忆、情感和认知心理理论表现较低。至关重要的是，分析表明，创伤性脑损伤患者的目标记忆与一阶和二阶认知心理理论之间存在显著正相关，但这些患者的目标记忆与情感心理理论之间无显著相关性。我们的研究结果表明，创伤性脑损伤患者在推断和预测对话者认知状态方面存在困难，与在记住信息告知对象方面存在困难之间存在关联。
