PubMed · 14890075
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W T GIBB. 1951. That full feeling.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14890075/
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People with epilepsy often complain about their memory. Memory deficits are also most commonly observed during neuropsychological evaluation. Many patients with memory problems ask for some kind of memory training. General memory improvement is not possible, but learning mnemonics clearly will help to solve some of the most common everyday memory problems of patients. Most mnemonics follow the general rules for good learning or memory. In the design of a memory rehabilitation program some specific aspect should be taken into account, such as the need for psycho-education into the effects of cognitive deficits in daily life, the impact of personality and emotional reactions, and the individual perception of memory problems. Training goals must be tailor-made, small and as concrete as possible and fully adjusted to the needs and wishes of the patients. Generalization of the learned mnemonics is mostly modest or even absent.
Recent studies have reported that vision can enhance tactile perception, even in patients with somatosensory deficits. However, it is unclear in these previous studies whether visual input truly enhances detection of tactile stimuli or induces a higher propensity for reporting touch by changing response criteria. In this study, we demonstrate in neurologically normal subjects that in addition to small increases in tactile sensitivity when a non-informative, suprathreshold visual stimulus is presented, there are highly consistent changes in response criteria for reporting touch with vision, even when no tactile stimulus is delivered. These results suggest that some of the previously reported enhancements of touch from vision may rather be a consequence of strategic sensory encoding processes that rely upon the typical correlations between multisensory events.