Differential effects of negative and positive emotional content over veridical and false recognition in aging and Alzheimer's disease

Publication date: February 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 49Author(s): Javier Rodríguez-Ferreiro, Carmen Martínez, Fernando CuetosAbstractAlzheimer's disease (AD) patients are known to present semantic memory impairments, and semantic processing plays a crucial role in the formation of false memories. We assessed 40 early stage AD patients and 35 matched healthy volunteers with an emotional version of the Deese-Roediger-McDermott paradigm, which allows the study of false memory formation. Participants were presented with three negative, three neutral and three positive lists of words, each semantically associated to a critical unpresented word. After the presentation of the lists the volunteers were asked to respond to a recognition questionnaire stating whether these cr...

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