The effect of age on the FCSRT-IR and Temporary Visual Memory Binding

Lewis Killin, Sharon Abrahams, Mario Parra Rodriguez, Sergio Della Sala

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Abstract

Background
Cognitive markers of early Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) should be sensitive and specific to memory impairments that are not associated with healthy cognitive aging. In the present study we investigated the effect of healthy cognitive aging on two proposed cognitive markers of AD: the Free and Cued Selective Reminding Task with Immediate Recall (FCSRT-IR) and a temporary visual memory binding (TMB) task.

Method
Free recall and the cost of holding bound information in visual memory were compared between 24 younger and 24 older participants in a mixed, fully counterbalanced experiment.

Results
A significant effect of age was observed on free recall in the FCSRT-IR only and not on the cost of binding in the TMB task.

Conclusions
Of these two cognitive markers, the TMB task is more likely to be specific to memory impairments that are independent of age.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)331-340
Number of pages10
JournalInternational Psychogeriatrics
Volume30
Issue number3
Early online date12 Sept 2017
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2018

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