Mechanisms underlying the production of false memories for famous people's names in aging and Alzheimer's disease

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2527-2536

  Plancher, Gaën ^a   Guyard, Anne ^a,b   Nicolas, Serge ^a   Piolino, Pascale ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^b Centre Hospitalier de Cholet   (France)

Author keywords

Aging; Alzheimer's disease; DRM paradigm; Episodic memory; Executive function; False memory; R K paradigm; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFABULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; EPISODIC MEMORY; FALSE MEMORY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PREDICTION; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SEMANTIC MEMORY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FAMOUS PERSONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; NAMES; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 67650074195     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.04.026     Document Type: Article

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