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Dissociation between implicit and explicit manifestations of awareness in early stage dementia
— evidence from the emotional Stroop effect for dementia-related words | | Author(s) | Anthony Martyr, Linda Clare, Sharon M Nelis |
| Journal title | International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, vol 26, no 1, January 2011 |
| Pages | pp 92-99 |
| Source | http://www.interscience.wiley.com/journal/gps |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Cognitive processes ; Mental clarity ; Mental speed ; Emotions ; Evaluation. |
| Annotation | The emotional Stroop test works by examining the response time of the participant to name colours of negative emotional words. The purpose of the study was to determine whether people with dementia (PwD), and carers of PwD, show a processing bias to dementia-related words in an emotional Stroop task, and if so, whether the presence of such a bias is related to level of explicit awareness of the condition. 79 people with early stage dementia and their carers completed an emotional Stroop task. Time taken to colour-name dementia-related and neutral words was compared within and between groups. Additionally, as a comparison, ratings of the awareness of the condition shown by PwD were made on the basis of a detailed interview with each PwD and his/her carer. Results showed that PwD and carers showed the same level of increase in response times to salient compared to neutral words. In the PwD this effect was unrelated to the degree of awareness that they demonstrated regarding the condition. So the emotional Stroop effect in response to dementia-related words in PwD indicates that preserved implicit awareness of the condition can be elicited even where there is reduced explicit awareness. (JL). |
| Accession Number | CPA-110804014 A |
| Classmark | EA: DA: DF: DG: DL: 4C |
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