The associative aspects of memory for words and faces in patients with pre-dementia Alzheimer's disease
(2018)
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- This work was aimed at exploring the associative aspects of memory for words and faces in patients with pre-dementia Alzheimer’s disease (preAD), in order to better understand the processes underpinning their episodic memory deficit. Our studies led to the formulation of different hypotheses with this respect and the proposition of a model integrating the two conceptual frameworks on which we based our work. Based on this model, we suggested that the episodic memory deficit in preAD may originate from impaired pattern separation processes implementing distinct contextual representations, which probably combines with impaired item-context binding processes. Accordingly with previous findings, our work highlighted that preAD patients may also present other deficits than episodic memory deficit. Together, these results support the idea that the memory and cognitive deficits in preAD are underpinned by a constellation of impaired processes, which still need to be further investigated.
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Quenon, L. (2018). The associative aspects of memory for words and faces in patients with pre-dementia Alzheimer’s disease.