The influence of strategic encoding on false memory in patients with mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease dementia.

ABSTRACT: Patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) dementia exhibit high rates of memory distortions in addition to their impairments in episodic memory. Several investigations have demonstrated that when healthy individuals (young and old) engaged in an encoding strategy that emphasized the uniqueness of study items (an item-specific encoding strategy), they were able to improve their discrimination between old items and unstudied critical lure items in a false memory task. In the present study we examined if patients with AD could also improve their memory discrimination when engaging in an item-specific encoding strategy. Healthy older adult controls, patients with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) due to AD, and patients with mild AD dementia were asked to study lists of categorized words. In the It

SUBMITTER: Tat MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5808440 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature