Implicit and explicit tests: evidence for dissociable motor skills in probable Alzheimer's dementia.
Previous authors reported evidence for intact implicit memories (those retrieved without conscious effort) in a serial reaction time task for both Alzheimer's subjects and age-matched controls, although performance on an explicit memory task (requiring conscious effort for retrieval) was poor. The...
| Published in: | Perceptual & Motor Skills Vol. 85; pp. 631 - 635 |
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Ammons Scientific, Ltd.
October 1997
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