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Intact cross-modality text-specific repetition priming in patients with Alzheimer’s disease

Giovanni Augusto CarlesimoCarlo CaltagironeLucia FaddaPatrizia TurrizianiMarco Mauri

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Malemedicine.medical_specialtyRepetition primingRecognition (Psychology)AudiologyCueDevelopmental psychologyDegenerative diseaseStimulus modalityText miningAlzheimer Diseaseotorhinolaryngologic diseasesmedicineHumansReading; Recognition (Psychology); Humans; Alzheimer Disease; Practice (Psychology); Case-Control Studies; Cues; Aged; Mental Recall; Retention (Psychology); Male; FemaleActive listeningAgedSettore M-PSI/02 - Psicobiologia E Psicologia Fisiologicabusiness.industryRetention PsychologyRecognition PsychologyCognitionmedicine.diseaseClinical PsychologyReadingNeurologyPractice PsychologicalPractice (Psychology)Case-Control StudiesMental RecallFacilitationRetention (Psychology)FemaleSettore MED/26 - NeurologiaNeurology (clinical)CuesCase-Control StudiePsychologybusinessPriming (psychology)Human

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This study was aimed at investigating the basic mechanisms of the normal repetition priming evoked by text re-reading procedures in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients (Monti, Gabrieli, Wilson, & Reminger, 1994; Monti et al., 1997). For this purpose, we contrasted the reading facilitation elicited by previous reading or listening to a text in a sample of AD patients and a group of age-matched normal controls. Consistent with previous evidence in normal undergraduates (Levy & Kirsner, 1989), previous listening to a text decreased the successive reading time of the same text (cross-modality priming). However, the reading facilitation elicited by previous reading of the same text (within-modality priming) was significantly larger than the facilitation evoked by previous listening. Compared to normal controls, AD patients showed intact crossmodality and within-modality priming. These data are discussed in the light of alternative hypotheses regarding the basic mechanisms of impaired and spared repetition priming in degenerative demented patients.

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2001-10-01
http://hdl.handle.net/11383/1791581