Recognition by familiarity is preserved in Parkinson's without dementia and Lewy-Body disease.
Lewy Body Disease
Analysis of Variance
Matched-Pair Analysis
Parkinson Disease
Recognition, Psychology
3. Good health
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Reference Values
Case-Control Studies
Mental Recall
Humans
Trastorns de la memòria en la vellesa
Dementia
Aged
DOI:
10.1037/a0019221
Publication Date:
2010-08-30T19:10:25Z
AUTHORS (8)
ABSTRACT
The retrieval deficit hypothesis states that the lack of deficit in recognition often observed in patients with Parkinson's disease is because of the low retrieval requirements of the task, given that these patients have retrieval and not encoding deficits. To test this hypothesis we investigated recognition memory by familiarity in Parkinson's patients and in patients with Lewy Bodies disease and Parkinson with dementia.We analyzed to what extent the experimental groups were able to recognize by familiarity in a typical yes/no recognition memory task. The experimental groups were patients with early nondemented Parkinson's disease, advanced nondemented Parkinson's disease, demented Parkinson's patients, and patients with dementia with Lewy Bodies. We compared their performance with a group of young and another group of old healthy participants. The estimation of familiarity was made by analyzing recognition of word targets and distractors consisting of combinations of different letters in comparison with a condition in which targets and distractors were composed of similar letters, even though subjects were unaware of the independent variable.The results indicate that familiarity was used at the same level by controls, patients with early Parkinson's disease and patients with dementia with Lewy Bodies. Although late Parkinson patients also used familiarity, its effect was only marginally significant. Patients with Parkinson's disease and dementia were not capable of using familiarity in recognition memory.Our results support the retrieval deficit hypothesis as Parkinson's patients without dementia show no deficit in a situation in which the retrieval requirements are minimal.
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