Alzheimer's disease and memory-monitoring impairment: Alzheimer's patients show a monitoring deficit that is greater than their accuracy deficit

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 49, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2609-2618

  Dodson, Chad S ^a   Spaniol, Maggie ^b,c,d   O'Connor, Maureen K ^b,c,d   Deason, Rebecca G ^b,c,d   Ally, Brandon A ^e   Budson, Andrew E ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c VA BOSTON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alzheimer's disease; Anosognosia; Calibration; Confidence; Memory monitoring; Recognition memory; Source memory

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; MEMORY MONITORING IMPAIRMENT; RECALL; RECOGNITION; SELF ESTEEM; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGNOSIA; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AWARENESS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL RECALL; MIDDLE AGED; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); REFERENCE VALUES; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 79960167335     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2011.05.008     Document Type: Article

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