Confabulation in healthy aging is related to interference of overlearned, semantically similar information on episodic memory recall

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 655-660

  Barba, Gianfranco Dalla ^a,b,c   Attali, Eve ^a,b   La Corte, Valentina ^a,b  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TRIESTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Confabulation; Consciousness; Episodic memory; Memory; Semantic memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SEMANTICS; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OVERLEARNING; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEMANTICS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954418918     PISSN: 13803395     EISSN: 1744411X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13803390903425251     Document Type: Article

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