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Examining the Characteristics of Episodic Memory using Event-related Potentials in Patients with Alzheimer's Disease
Published on: August 30, 2011
The suppression effect in visuospatial and verbal working memory span tasks in patients with Alzheimer's disease: a
M Rosa Elosúa1, Matías Peinado1,2, María José Contreras1
1a Departamento Psicología Básica I, Facultad de Psicología , Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED) , Madrid , Spain.
Abstract:
This study adapted a new task to assess visuospatial and verbal working memory impairments in patients with Alzheimer Disease (AD), including an executive strategy of information suppression. The aim was to examine the visuospatial and verbal difficulties, and additionally to explore the average sex differences, during a 2-year follow-up study. The results indicated that patients with AD showed a significantly lower performance, compared with healthy elderly controls, especially with the suppression of information required in this new task. However, suppression did not lead to a significantly greater decline in the performance of patients when compared with the control group.
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