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| Repetition priming in normal aging and Alzheimer's disease: a review of findings and theories | | Author(s) | Debra A Fleischman, John D E Gabrieli |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 13, no 1, March 1998 |
| Pages | pp 88-119 |
| Keywords | Dementia ; Memory and Reminiscence ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | On repetition priming tasks, memory is measured indirectly as a change in performance due to recent experience. It is often functionally and neurally dissociated from performance in explicit memory tasks, which directly measure conscious recall or recognition of recent events. Repetition priming has therefore been extensively studied in normal ageing and Alzheimer's disease (AD), which feature mild to severe changes in explicit memory. Initial studies indicated that repetition priming was immune to the effects of ageing and greatly reduced in AD. However, as more studies have been conducted, these initial conclusions seem less clear than earlier and, in the case of AD, actually misleading. The aim of this article is to provide a comprehensive review of this expanding literature, articulate the issues that are critical to interpreting the empirical results, and discuss what new conclusions are suggested by the overall pattern of findings. (AKM). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980708409 A |
| Classmark | EA: DB: 7T |
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