Miller E
Br J Soc Clin Psychol. 1975 Feb;14(1):73-9. doi: 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1975.tb00151.x.
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.
尽管早老性痴呆患者在自由回忆和常规类型的识别测试条件下，检索先前呈现用于学习的材料的能力非常差，但研究发现，当在回忆时提供正确单词的首字母时，他们的表现与正常对照组没有显著差异。这一发现增加了一种可能性，即早老性痴呆患者的长期记忆障碍可能并非如之前所认为的那样，是由于无法在长期存储中建立新的材料，而是由于检索该信息存在困难。
