Department of Psychological Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Chieti, Chieti, Italy.
Department of Psychological Sciences, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Chieti, Chieti, Italy.
Psychiatry Res. 2017 Mar;249:9-15. doi: 10.1016/j.psychres.2016.12.036. Epub 2016 Dec 30.
This study examined the production of inferential false memories for complex pictorial stimuli and the implications of affective content in Alzheimer's disease (AD). A group of 24 AD patients and a group of 24 healthy older adults studied a sequence of pictures depicting stories that included positive, negative or neutral consequences of an unseen action, and then completed an old-new picture recognition test. The number of causal errors was higher in healthy older adults compared to AD patients but affective content attenuated the effect. Causal errors increased in AD patients when stories included affective (positive or negative) outcomes. In addition, negative content produced a larger number of errors than positive content across groups. This data confirms that although memory processing is poorer in AD, it is sensitive to affective content. Accordingly, the nature of affective false memory errors suggest the need to consider the use of affective information in the development of new cognitive training procedures.
本研究考察了对复杂图像刺激产生推理性错误记忆的情况，并探讨了阿尔茨海默病（AD）中情感内容的影响。一组 24 名 AD 患者和一组 24 名健康老年人研究了一系列图片，这些图片描述了一个未观察到的动作的结果，包括积极的、消极的或中性的结果，然后完成了一个旧新图片识别测试。与 AD 患者相比，健康老年人的因果错误更多，但情感内容减弱了这种影响。当故事包含情感（积极或消极）结果时，AD 患者的因果错误会增加。此外，在各组中，负性内容比正性内容产生更多的错误。这些数据证实，尽管 AD 患者的记忆处理能力较差，但他们对情感内容很敏感。因此，情感错误记忆的性质表明需要考虑在新的认知训练程序中使用情感信息。
