Hawley Karri S, Cherry Katie E
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge 70803-5501, USA.
Behav Modif. 2004 Mar;28(2):276-96. doi: 10.1177/0145445503259283.
Six older adults with probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) were trained to recall a name-face association using the spaced-retrieval method. We administered six training sessions over a 2-week period. On each trial, participants selected a target photograph and stated the target name, from eight other photographs, at increasingly longer retention intervals. Results yielded a positive effect of spaced-retrieval training for name-face recognition. All participants were able to select the target photograph and state the target's name for longer periods of time within and across training sessions. A live-person transfer task was administered to determine whether the name-face association, trained by spaced-retrieval, would transfer to a live person. Half of the participants were able to call the live person by the correct name. These data provide initial evidence that spaced-retrieval training can aid older adults with probable AD in recall of a name-face association and in transfer of that association to an actual person.
六名患有可能的阿尔茨海默病（AD）的老年人接受了使用间隔检索法回忆名字-面孔关联的训练。我们在两周的时间内进行了六次训练课程。在每次试验中，参与者从另外八张照片中选择一张目标照片，并在越来越长的保持间隔时间内说出目标名字。结果显示间隔检索训练对名字-面孔识别有积极作用。所有参与者在训练课程期间及不同课程之间都能够在更长时间内选择目标照片并说出目标名字。进行了一项真人转移任务，以确定通过间隔检索训练的名字-面孔关联是否会转移到真人身上。一半的参与者能够正确叫出真人的名字。这些数据提供了初步证据，表明间隔检索训练可以帮助患有可能的AD的老年人回忆名字-面孔关联，并将该关联转移到实际的人身上。
