Title |
Differences in learning rates for item and associative memories between amnestic mild cognitive impairment and healthy controls
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Published in |
Behavioral and Brain Functions, July 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/1744-9081-9-29 |
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Authors |
Pengyun Wang, Juan Li, Huijie Li, Shouzi Zhang |
Abstract |
It has been established that the overall performance of associative memory was disproportionately impaired in contrast to item memory in aMCI (Amnestic mild cognitive impairment) patients, but little is known about the specific aspects of the memory process that show differences between aMCI and healthy controls. By comparing an item-item associative learning test with an individual item learning test, the present study investigated whether the rate of learning was slower in associative memory than in item memory in aMCI. Furthermore, we examined whether deficits in intertrial acquisition and consolidation contributed to the potential disproportionate impairments in the learning rate of associative memory for aMCI patients. In addition, we further explored whether the aMCI-discriminative power of the associative memory test increases more than that of the item memory test when the number of learning-test trials increases. |
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