TY  - JOUR
A1  - Arndt, Larissa R.
A1  - Esser, Günter
A1  - Weirich, Sebastian
A1  - Oelsner, Henriette
A1  - Ebersbach, Georg
A1  - Bengner, Thomas
T1  - Face Memory in Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease Moderated by Sex and Encoding Duration
JF  - Zeitschrift für Neuropsychologie
N2  - We examined face memory deficits in patients with Idiopathic Parkinson's disease (IPD) with specific regard to the moderating role of sex and the different memory processes involved. We tested short- and long-term face recognition memory in 18 nonclinical participants and 18 IPD-patients matched for sex, education and age. We varied the duration of item presentation (1, 5, 10s), the time of testing (immediately, 1hr, 24hrs) and the possibility to re-encode items. In accordance with earlier studies, we report face memory deficits in IPD. Moreover, our findings indicate that sex and encoding conditions may be important moderator variables. In contrast to healthy individuals, IPD-patients cannot gain from increasing duration of presentation. Furthermore, our results suggest that I PD leads to face memory deficits in women, only.
KW  - neuropsychology
KW  - declarative memory
KW  - Morbus Parkinson
KW  - gender
KW  - episodic memory
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1024/1016-264X/a000148
SN  - 1016-264X
SN  - 1664-2902
VL  - 26
IS  - 2
SP  - 109
EP  - 120
PB  - Hogrefe
CY  - Bern
ER  -