Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire (LPPL - EA 4638), Nantes Université, Univ Angers, F-44000 Nantes, France.
Centre Hospitalier de Tourcoing, Unité de Gériatrie, Tourcoing, France.
Arch Clin Neuropsychol. 2020 May 22;35(4):377-384. doi: 10.1093/arclin/acaa001.
We investigated the relationship between confabulations and the ability to process chronological characteristics of memories in Alzheimer's Disease (AD).
We evaluated provoked confabulations, spontaneous confabulations, and time perception in 31 AD patients. We evaluated provoked confabulations with questions probing general and personal knowledge. We evaluated spontaneous confabulations with a scale rated by nursing and medical staff. Regarding time perception, we invited the participants to perform a simple ongoing activity (i.e., deciding whether words were abstract or concrete), in order to provide a verbal estimation of the elapsed time intervals.
We observed significant positive correlations between provoked/spontaneous confabulations and deviations in time estimation on the time perception task.
These findings demonstrate a relationship between confabulations in AD and difficulties in processing the chronological characteristics of elapsed events.
我们研究了阿尔茨海默病(AD)患者中虚构与处理记忆时间特征能力之间的关系。
我们评估了 31 例 AD 患者的诱发性虚构、自发性虚构和时间感知能力。我们使用探查一般和个人知识的问题来评估诱发性虚构。我们使用由护理和医务人员评定的量表来评估自发性虚构。关于时间感知,我们邀请参与者执行一项简单的持续活动(即判断单词是抽象的还是具体的),以便对经过的时间间隔进行口头估计。
我们观察到在时间感知任务中,诱发/自发性虚构与时间估计偏差之间存在显著的正相关。
这些发现表明 AD 中的虚构与处理经过事件的时间特征的困难之间存在关系。