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Influences of cognitive support on episodic remembering
— tracing the process of loss from normal aging to Alzheimer's disease | | Author(s) | Lars Bäckman, Brent J Small |
| Journal title | Psychology and Aging, vol 13, no 2, June 1998 |
| Pages | pp 267-276 |
| Keywords | Memory and Reminiscence ; Time duration ; Performance ; Mental ageing ; Dementia ; Longitudinal surveys ; Sweden. |
| Annotation | Normal older adults, incident Alzheimer's disease (AD), and prevalent AD patients from a longitudinal population survey in Kungsholmen, Stockholm, Sweden, were examined across a 3-year interval in episodic memory tasks varying in terms of study time, organizability, and retrieval cues. There were marked overall preclinical deficits among the incident AD patients, although these patients were as effective as the normal older adults in utilising more study time, organizability and retrieval cues to improve memory at baseline. When these patients were diagnosed with AD at follow-up, they showed negligible gains from increased study time and organizability when memory was assessed with free recall, although they profited from the provision of retrieval cues. This pattern of results was also seen in the prevalent AD patients at both times of measurement. These results indicate that a general impairment of episodic memory may precede reductions in cognitive reserve capacity in the early development of AD. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-980812006 A |
| Classmark | DB: 4N: 5H: D6: EA: 3J: 76P |
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