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  • Title: Increased sensitivity to proactive interference in amnestic mild cognitive impairment is independent of associative and semantic impairment.
    Author: Hanseeuw BJ, Seron X, Ivanoiu A.
    Journal: Brain Cogn; 2010 Mar; 72(2):325-31. PubMed ID: 19906479.
    Abstract:
    Episodic memory deficit is the hallmark of amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI). There is, however, an overlap in performance among patients with aMCI and elderly controls (EC). The memory deficit in aMCI therefore needs to be better characterized. Studies have shown that associative memory is selectively impaired in aMCI, and recent work suggested that aMCI may be hypersensitive to semantic proactive interference (PI). It is not known whether this increased PI is related to associative or semantic impairment. EC (n=44) and patients with aMCI (n=30) performed two tasks presenting a gradually increasing PI effect across four lists. One task used semantic cueing, the other phonological cueing. We controlled for associative memory by introducing it as a covariate and by matching our subjects for it. Patients with aMCI had a greater PI effect than EC matched for associative memory, regardless of the type of cueing. The increased PI effect in patients with aMCI is independent of their associative and semantic impairment.
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