Cherry Katie E, Walvoord Ashley A G, Hawley Karri S
Louisiana State University, Department of Psychology, 236 Audubon Hall, Baton Rouge, LA 70803, USA.
J Genet Psychol. 2010 Apr-Jun;171(2):168-81. doi: 10.1080/00221320903548118.
The authors trained 4 older adults with probable Alzheimer's disease to recall a name-face-occupation association using the spaced retrieval technique. Six training sessions were administered over a 2-week period. On each trial, participants selected a target photograph and stated the target name and occupation at increasingly longer retention intervals, contingent upon successful recall. Two transfer tasks were included to determine whether the trained association transferred to the person whose picture served as the training stimulus. Results yielded a positive effect of spaced retrieval on memory for the trained association. Analyses of errors revealed that participants remembered the target person's occupation more often than his or her name. There was modest evidence of transfer of the name-face-occupation association to the actual person. Implications of these data for memory remediation and quality of life in cognitively impaired older adults are considered.
作者使用间隔检索技术训练了4名患有疑似阿尔茨海默病的老年人，使其记住名字-面孔-职业关联。在两周的时间内进行了6次训练课程。在每次试验中，参与者选择一张目标照片，并在越来越长的保留间隔时间内说出目标名字和职业，前提是成功回忆。包括两项迁移任务，以确定训练的关联是否迁移到了其照片用作训练刺激物的人身上。结果显示间隔检索对训练关联的记忆有积极影响。对错误的分析表明，参与者记住目标人物职业的频率高于其名字。有适度证据表明名字-面孔-职业关联迁移到了实际人物身上。本文考虑了这些数据对认知受损老年人记忆修复和生活质量的意义。
