Nicole M Rosa1, Rebecca G Deason2, Andrew E Budson3, Angela H Gutchess4. 1. Department of Psychology, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts. Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. nrosa@worcester.edu. 2. Center for Translational Cognitive Neuroscience, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Massachusetts. Department of Psychology, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas. 3. Center for Translational Cognitive Neuroscience, Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System, Massachusetts. Boston University Alzheimer's Disease Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Massachusetts. 4. Department of Psychology, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: The present study examined the role of enactment in source memory in a cognitively impaired population. As seen in healthy older adults, it was predicted that source memory in people with mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease (MCI-AD) would benefit from the self-reference aspect of enactment. METHOD: Seventeen participants with MCI-AD and 18 controls worked in small groups to pack a picnic basket and suitcase and were later tested for their source memory for each item. RESULTS: For item memory, self-referencing improved corrected recognition scores for both MCI-AD and control participants. The MCI-AD group did not demonstrate the same benefit as controls in correct source memory for self-related items. However, those with MCI-AD were relatively less likely to misattribute new items to the self and more likely to misattribute new items to others when committing errors, compared with controls. DISCUSSION: The enactment effect and self-referencing did not enhance accurate source memory more than other referencing for patients with MCI-AD. However, people with MCI-AD benefited in item memory and source memory, being less likely to falsely claim new items as their own, indicating some self-reference benefit occurs for people with MCI-AD. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Gerontological Society of America 2014.
OBJECTIVES: The present study examined the role of enactment in source memory in a cognitively impaired population. As seen in healthy older adults, it was predicted that source memory in people with mild cognitive impairment due to Alzheimer's disease (MCI-AD) would benefit from the self-reference aspect of enactment. METHOD: Seventeen participants with MCI-AD and 18 controls worked in small groups to pack a picnic basket and suitcase and were later tested for their source memory for each item. RESULTS: For item memory, self-referencing improved corrected recognition scores for both MCI-AD and control participants. The MCI-AD group did not demonstrate the same benefit as controls in correct source memory for self-related items. However, those with MCI-AD were relatively less likely to misattribute new items to the self and more likely to misattribute new items to others when committing errors, compared with controls. DISCUSSION: The enactment effect and self-referencing did not enhance accurate source memory more than other referencing for patients with MCI-AD. However, people with MCI-AD benefited in item memory and source memory, being less likely to falsely claim new items as their own, indicating some self-reference benefit occurs for people with MCI-AD. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Gerontological Society of America 2014.
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