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ArticleTitle	Prospective memory in patients with Korsakoff syndrome
Language	J
AuthorList	Satoshi Umeda¹⁾, Motoichiro Kato²⁾, Masaru Mimura³⁾, Haruo Kashima⁴⁾, Takaaki Koyazu⁵⁾
Affiliation	1) Department of Psychology, Keio University 2) Depertment of Neuropsychiatry, Tokyo Dental College Ichikawa General Hospital 3) Department of Neuropsychiatry, Showa University School of Medicine 4) Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine 5) Nihonbashi Gakkan University
Publication	Japanese Journal of Neuropsychology: 16 (3), 193-199, 2000
Received	Feb 8, 2000
Accepted	Mar 31, 2000
Abstract	Prospective memory performance of patients with Korsakoff syndrome and normal age-matched controls were assessed with two tasks. To perform intended actions appropriately, it is necessary to remember two things: the presence of intentions to remember and the contents of the intentions. The findings of this study were twofold: 1) in the case of intentions associated with obvious external cues, contents reported were mostly mistaken, though remembering to remember was in normal level, 2) in the case of intentions with inconspicuous contextual cues, remembering to remember were under normal level, though contents reported were accurate. These results support the functional dissociation of remembering to remember and remembering contents in prospective memory.
Keywords	Korsakoff syndrome, prospective memory, remembering to remember, remembering contents