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Associative and Recognition Memory for Novel Objects in Dementia: Implications for Diagnosis by Andy C. H. Lee; Shibley Rahman; John R. Hodges; Barbara J. Sahakian; Kim S. Graham is a Neuroscience article available to read on EtoBox.

## Abstract It has been demonstrated that patients with dementia of the Alzheimer's type show particular difficulties with a task that measures memory for object locations [R. Swainson __et al__. (2001) __Dement. Geriatr. Cogn. Disord__. **12**, 265–80]. The present study followed on from this report by asking whether the deficits seen in dementia of the Alzheimer's type were specific to this condition, or whether they would also be seen in another common neurodegenerative syndrome, frontotemporal dementia. To investigate this important issue, we examined memory for object–location pairs and visual recognition memory for novel patterns using two tests, the Paired Associates Learning and Matching to Sample tasks, from the Cambridge Neuropsychological Testing Automated Battery. The performance of a subset of the patients with dementia of the Alzheimer's type described by Swainson __et al__., selected on the basis of age and education, was compared with matched groups of frontal variant frontotemporal dementia, semantic dementia and control subjects. In contrast to the patients with dementia of the Alzheimer's type, who showed significant impairment on both memory tests, the two front

Author

Andy C. H. Lee; Shibley Rahman; John R. Hodges; Barbara J. Sahakian; Kim S. Graham

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0953-816X)

Published

2003

Language

EN

Field

Neuroscience (Life Sciences)