Face Memory in Idiopathic Parkinson's Disease Moderated by Sex and Encoding Duration
- 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.
Author details: | Larissa R. Arndt, Günter EsserORCiDGND, Sebastian Weirich, Henriette Oelsner, Georg Ebersbach, Thomas Bengner |
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DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1024/1016-264X/a000148 |
ISSN: | 1016-264X |
ISSN: | 1664-2902 |
Title of parent work (English): | Zeitschrift für Neuropsychologie |
Publisher: | Hogrefe |
Place of publishing: | Bern |
Publication type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Year of first publication: | 2015 |
Publication year: | 2015 |
Release date: | 2017/03/27 |
Tag: | Morbus Parkinson; declarative memory; episodic memory; gender; neuropsychology |
Volume: | 26 |
Issue: | 2 |
Number of pages: | 12 |
First page: | 109 |
Last Page: | 120 |
Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften / Department Psychologie |
Peer review: | Referiert |
Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Institut für Psychologie |