MONITORING OF GENERAL KNOWLEDGE - EVIDENCE FOR PRESERVATION IN EARLY ALZHEIMERS-DISEASE
MONITORING OF GENERAL KNOWLEDGE - EVIDENCE FOR PRESERVATION IN EARLY ALZHEIMERS-DISEASE
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DOI:
10.1016/0028-3932(93)90157-u
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发表时间:
1993-04-01
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影响因子:
2.6
通讯作者:
LIPINSKA, B
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作者:
BACKMAN, L;LIPINSKA, B
The ability to retrieve and monitor factual information was examined in normal old adults and patients with a mild Alzheimer's disease (AD). Subjects were given free recall and multiple-choice recognition tests of 48 general knowledge questions. For both tests, subjects made confidence ratings regarding the certainty of their answers, and they also made feeling-of-knowing ratings for those questions they did not answer in recall. Results indicated a superiority of controls over patients in recall that was somewhat reduced in recognition. However, there were no group differences in any of the slopes relating rating to accuracy: recall and recognition as a function of confidence rating, and recognition of questions not answered in recall as a function of feeling-of-knowing. This pattern of outcome indicates that early AD is associated with a deficit in fact-retrieval, although the ability to monitor stored general knowledge may be intact.