First: these studies are unrelated to AI and mostly predate modern LLMs, so no, they draw no direct comparisons. At best, this is pointing out two surprisingly similar behaviors we observe in LLMs and the actual functioning of the human mind.

Second: Being unable to reconstruct a prior mental state =/= remembering a thought process. I'll use an accursed programing analogy because we are on an accursed programing website: it's like the difference between debug logs and time-travel debugging. In plain language: humans retroactively reason about their thought process based on the artifacts produced by that thought process. The quality and reliability of these artifacts will vary heavily, but the reasoning itself is always backward-looking and speculative in nature.