Abstract

QUIJANO MARTINEZ, María Cristina  and  APONTE HENAO, Mónica. Autogeneration effect as a strategy for memory rehabilitation. Psychol. av. discip. [online]. 2011, vol.5, n.2, pp.107-120. ISSN 1900-2386.

The memory is one of the most important psychological processes in human development, since it plays an essential role in the learning process and consequently in the execution of many of the activities of the daily life, reason for which, the loss of this faculty is considered one of the most disabling alterations in human beings, and that most affects people who suffer illnesses associated with aging and TBI. However, different memory rehabilitation techniques exist that aid in the process of reestablishment of patients to the highest possible functioning level, and amongst those techniques are the ones that are based on the concept of autogeneration counting with the premise that the information generated by oneself is remembered better, because it produces a more lasting mark, which could be attributed to the fact that the deeper the processing, the more complex the network, and the faster the access through different pathways. Recent investigations with the autogeneration technique effect have shown that this is a tool that delays the cognitive decline, specially of memory, in people who suffer illnesses related to aging, degenerative illnesses like Alzheimer's dementia and multiple sclerosis; and also improves learning and memory in healthy people, with history of traumatic brain injury, mild cognitive impairment and convulsive disorders, improving quality of life and the cognitive functioning of this patients, currently, investigations are being conducted in other diseases, in an attempt to change the actual paradigm in which is considered that the patient has lost his faculties and therefore needs to relearn.

Keywords : Memory; learning; rehabilitation; technique of autogeneration.

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