Abstract
Research shows beneficial effect of emotion on self-related information in patients with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). Our paper investigates whether emotion improves destination memory (e.g., did I tell you about the manuscript?), which is thought to be self-related (e.g., did I tell you about the manuscript?). To this aim, twenty-seven AD patients and thirty healthy older adults told 24 neutral facts to eight neutral faces, eight positive faces, and eight negative faces. On a subsequent recognition task, participants had to decide whether they had previously told a given fact to a given face or not. Data revealed no emotional effect on destination memory in AD patients. However, in healthy older adults, better destination memory was observed for negative faces than for positive faces, and the latter memory was better than for neutral faces. The absence of emotional effect on destination memory in AD is interpreted in terms of substantial decline in this memory in the disease.
Keywords: Alzheimer’s disease, destination memory, emotion, episodic memory.
Current Alzheimer Research
Title:Emotion and Destination Memory in Alzheimer’s Disease
Volume: 12 Issue: 8
Author(s): Mohamad El Haj, Stephane Raffard, Pascal Antoine and Marie-Christine Gely-Nargeot
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Keywords: Alzheimer’s disease, destination memory, emotion, episodic memory.
Abstract: Research shows beneficial effect of emotion on self-related information in patients with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). Our paper investigates whether emotion improves destination memory (e.g., did I tell you about the manuscript?), which is thought to be self-related (e.g., did I tell you about the manuscript?). To this aim, twenty-seven AD patients and thirty healthy older adults told 24 neutral facts to eight neutral faces, eight positive faces, and eight negative faces. On a subsequent recognition task, participants had to decide whether they had previously told a given fact to a given face or not. Data revealed no emotional effect on destination memory in AD patients. However, in healthy older adults, better destination memory was observed for negative faces than for positive faces, and the latter memory was better than for neutral faces. The absence of emotional effect on destination memory in AD is interpreted in terms of substantial decline in this memory in the disease.
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El Haj Mohamad, Raffard Stephane, Antoine Pascal and Gely-Nargeot Marie-Christine, Emotion and Destination Memory in Alzheimer’s Disease, Current Alzheimer Research 2015; 12 (8) . https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1567205012666150710112802
DOI https://dx.doi.org/10.2174/1567205012666150710112802 |
Print ISSN 1567-2050 |
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