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Arch Gerontol Geriatr · Jan 2009
Comparative StudySerial position effect in a free recall task: differences between probable dementia of Alzheimer type (PDAT), vascular (VaD) and mixed etiology dementia (MED).
- G Orru, S Sampietro, S Catanzaro, A Girardi, M Najjar, V Giantin, G Sergi, E Manzato, G Enzi, E M Inelmen, and A Coin.
- Department of Medicine and Surgical Sciences, Geriatric Clinic, University of Padova, Padova (PD), Italy. graziella.orru@unipd.it
- Arch Gerontol Geriatr. 2009 Jan 1; 49 Suppl 1: 207-10.
AbstractHere we report an investigation on the serial position effect (SPE) in elderly patients with early dementia due to different etiologies. The Rey's 15 words test has been used to evaluate whether different types of dementia show different patterns of immediate and delayed recall and of learning process. Ninety-four patients were recruited from the Geriatric Clinic of Padua. We evaluated the primacy effect (PE), the recency effect (RE) and the learning process within the sample. Our results indicate that different etiologies have different patterns of anterograde memory impairment.
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