Charlesworth, LA, Allen, RJ, Morson, S et al. (2 more authors) (2014) Working memory and the enactment effect in early Alzheimer’s disease. ISRN Neurology, 2014. 694761. ISSN 2090-5505
Abstract
This study examines the enactment effect in early Alzheimer’s disease using a novel working memory task. Free recall of action-object instruction sequences was measured in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease (n=14) and older adult controls (n=15). Instruction sequences were read out loud by the experimenter (verbal-only task), or read by the experimenter and performed by the participants (subject-performed task). In both groups and for all sequence lengths, recall was superior in the subject-performed condition than the verbal-only condition. Individuals with Alzheimer’s disease showed a deficit in free recall of recently learned instruction sequences relative to older adult controls, yet both groups show a significant benefit from performing actions themselves at encoding. The subject-performed task shows promise as a tool to improve working memory in early Alzheimer’s disease.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2014 Lara A. Charlesworth et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | Alzheimer's disease; working memory; enactment effect |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Psychology (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 11 Dec 2014 11:16 |
Last Modified: | 03 Nov 2017 04:13 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/694761 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Hindawi Publishing Corporation |
Identification Number: | 10.1155/2014/694761 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:81568 |