Context Memory in Alzheimer’s Disease: The 'Who, Where, and When'
| Autor: | Mohamad El Haj, Pascal Antoine |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives (SCALab) - UMR 9193 (SCALab), Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Laboratoire Sciences Cognitives et Sciences Affectives - UMR 9193 (SCALab) |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Aging Names of the days of the week Memory Episodic Context-dependent memory Disease Neuropsychological Tests 050105 experimental psychology [SCCO]Cognitive science 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Alzheimer Disease Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Temporal information Episodic memory Aged Aged 80 and over Psychiatric Status Rating Scales Memory Disorders Depression 05 social sciences General Medicine Inhibition Psychological Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Memory Short-Term Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology Psychiatric status rating scales Female Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 2017, Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, 33 (2), pp.158-167. ⟨10.1093/arclin/acx062⟩ |
| ISSN: | 1873-5843 |
| Popis: | Objective: Context memory, a component of episodic system, refers to the ability to retrieve conditions under which an event has occurred, such as who was present during that event and where and when it occurred. Context memory has been found to be compromised in older adults, an issue that we investigated in Alzheimer's disease (AD). Methods: Thirty-one participants with AD and 35 older adults were asked to generate three autobiographical events. Afterward, they were asked to remember the names of all people who were evoked during the events, and the names for any location that was mentioned during the events. Participants were also asked to remember the year, season, month and day of the week when the events occurred. Results: Compared to older adults, participants with AD showed lower memory for "who" (p < .001), "where" (p < .05), and "when" (p < .01). Compared to "who" and "where", both participants with AD and older adults showed pronounced difficulties in remembering the "when". Conclusion: these findings highlight difficulties in remembering temporal information as an indication of context memory decline in AD. The difficulties in retrieving temporal information are discussed in terms of timing failures and hippocampal degenerations in AD. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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