Other Disorders
Individuals with temporal lobe epilepsy display impaired metamemory for some tasks and not for others, but little research has been conducted in this area.
One of the characteristics of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is decreased memory performance, but there are inconclusive results regarding metamemory in AD. Metamemory impairment is commonly observed in individuals late in the progression of AD, and some studies also find metamemory impairment early in AD, while others do not.
Individuals with either Parkinson’s Disease or Huntington’s Disease do not appear to have impaired metamemory.
Read more about this topic: Metamemory, Physiological Influences, Neurological Disorders
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