Alzheimer patients' use of auditory and olfactory cues to aid verbalmemory
J.M. Rusted
Bok Engelsk 1997
| Utgitt | 1997
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| Omfang | Side 364- 371
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| Opplysninger | As part of a programme of studies investigating memory for everydaytasks, we examined the potential of auditory and olfactory sensorycues to improve free recall of an action event (cooking an omelette)by individuals with dementia of the Alzheimer type. Both healthyelderly and volunteers with DAT recalled more of the individualactions which comprised the event when they listened, prior torecall, to a tape of sounds associated with the event. Olfactory cueswhich accompanied auditory cues did not produce additional benefitsover auditory cues alone. The pattern of recall suggests that theauditory cues improved recall of the whole event, and were not merelyincreasing recall of the specific actions associated with the soundcues. The results strongly suggest that individuals with DAT continueto encode experiences multimodally, and that they can subsequentlyuse sensory information to aid memory. This has practicalimplications for accessing residual memory for a wide range ofeveryday activities.
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