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Normal mere exposure effect with impaired recognition in Alzheimer's disease
Willems, Sylvie; Adam, Stéphane; Van der Linden, Martial
2002In Cortex: A Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior, 38 (1), p. 77-86
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Keywords :
Alzheimer's disease; memory; priming; face perception
Abstract :
[en] We investigated the mere exposure effect and the explicit memory in Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients and elderly control subjects, using unfamiliar faces. During the exposure phase, the subjects estimated the age of briefly flashed faces. The mere exposure effect was examined by presenting pairs of faces (old and new) and asking participants to select the face they liked. The participants were then presented with a forced-choice explicit recognition task. Controls subjects exhibited above-chance preference and recognition scores for old faces. The AD patients also showed the mere exposure effect but no explicit recognition. These results suggest that the processes involved in the mere exposure effect are preserved in AD patients despite their impaired explicit recognition. The results are discussed in terms of Seamon et al.'s (1995) proposal that processes involved in the mere exposure effect are equivalent to those subserving perceptual priming. These processes would depend on extrastriate areas which are relatively preserved in AD patients.
Disciplines :
Neurosciences & behavior
Author, co-author :
Willems, Sylvie  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cognitives > Psychopathologie cognitive
Adam, Stéphane  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cognitives > Département des sciences cognitives
Van der Linden, Martial ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences cognitives > Psychopathologie cognitive
Language :
English
Title :
Normal mere exposure effect with impaired recognition in Alzheimer's disease
Publication date :
February 2002
Journal title :
Cortex: A Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior
ISSN :
0010-9452
eISSN :
1973-8102
Publisher :
Masson Divisione Periodici, Milan, Italy
Volume :
38
Issue :
1
Pages :
77-86
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
Commentary :
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