The Role of Recollection and Familiarity in Nondemented Parkinson's Patients. Issue 3 (3rd July 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pitarque, Alfonso; Melendez, Juan C.; Sales, Alicia; Satorres, Encar; Escudero, Joaquin; Algarabel, Salvador
• Is Part Of: Journal of general psychology. Volume 144:Issue 3(2017)
• Page Start: 230
• Page End: 243
• Publication Date: 2017-07-03
• Subjects: Associative recognition -- false recognition -- familiarity -- memory deficits -- Parkinson's disease -- recollection; Psychology, Experimental -- Periodicals; Psychology -- Periodicals; 150.724
• DOI: 10.1080/00221309.2017.1319793
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0022-1309

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The aim of the current study was to examine if recollection and familiarity decline in nondemented Parkinson's patients. To do so we compared a sample of older people with Parkinson's disease ( n = 32) to a control sample of healthy older people ( n = 32) on an associative recognition task in which we manipulated the repetition of the pairs during the study phase (half of the pairs were presented once and half twice) to obtain corrected estimates of recollection, familiarity, and false recognition based on the logic of the process-dissociation procedure. The results clearly show that recollection is impaired but familiarity is preserved in nondemented Parkinson's patients. The results show that memory for pairs in Parkinson's patients relies largely on the familiarity of each item and not on a precise recollection of associative information, supporting the idea that recollection-based monitoring processes are impaired in these patients.