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Intact Semantic Priming of Critical Lures in Alzheimer’s Disease: Implications for False Memory

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  • Christelle Evrard
  • Fabienne Colombel
  • Anne-Laure Gilet
  • Yves Corson

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Objectives. The present study examines the question of the activation of the critical lure (CL) in Alzheimer’s patients with a Deese–Roediger–McDermott (DRM)-like task. More precisely, older adults and Alzheimer’s patients performed a lexical decision task in which they were asked to categorize strings of letters as words or nonwords. Contrary to the DRM paradigm in which the activation of the CL is inferred from its production at recall, such a lexical decision task does not require the joint use of intentional recovery strategies and source-monitoring processes that are known to be particularly impaired in Alzheimer’s patients. The performance at the lexical decision therefore reflects the activation of the CL without contamination from such strategic processes.

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  • Christelle Evrard & Fabienne Colombel & Anne-Laure Gilet & Yves Corson, 2016. "Intact Semantic Priming of Critical Lures in Alzheimer’s Disease: Implications for False Memory," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 71(4), pages 671-674.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:geronb:v:71:y:2016:i:4:p:671-674.
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