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Impaired Recall and the Memory Disturbance in Presenile Dementia
Author(s) -
MILLER BYEDGAR
Publication year - 1975
Publication title -
british journal of social and clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0007-1293
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1975.tb00151.x
Subject(s) - recall , psychology , dementia , free recall , cognitive psychology , disturbance (geology) , term (time) , test (biology) , developmental psychology , audiology , medicine , disease , paleontology , physics , quantum mechanics , biology
Although subjects with presenile dementia have a very poor ability to retrieve material previously presented for learning under conditions of free recall and the usual type of recognition test, their performance was found to be not significantly different from normal controls when the initial letters of the correct words were provided at the time of recall. This finding raises the possibility that the long‐term memory failure in presenile dementia may not be due to an inability to establish new material in the long‐term store, as had previously been thought, but to a difficulty in retrieving that information.