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- Title
Level of Recall, Retrieval Speed, and Variability on the Cued-Recall Retrieval Speed Task (CRRST) in Individuals with Amnestic Mild Cognitive Impairment.
- Authors
Ramratan, Wendy S.; Rabin, Laura A.; Wang, Cuiling; Zimmerman, Molly E.; Katz, Mindy J.; Lipton, Richard B.; Buschke, Herman
- Abstract
Individuals with amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI) show deficits on traditional episodic memory tasks and reductions in speed of performance on reaction time tasks. We present results on a novel task, the Cued-Recall Retrieval Speed Task (CRRST), designed to simultaneously measure level and speed of retrieval. A total of 390 older adults (mean age, 80.2 years), learned 16 words based on corresponding categorical cues. In the retrieval phase, we measured accuracy (% correct) and retrieval speed/reaction time (RT; time from cue presentation to voice onset of a correct response) across 6 trials. Compared to healthy elderly adults (HEA, n = 303), those with aMCI (n = 87) exhibited poorer performance in retrieval speed (difference = −0.13; p < .0001) and accuracy on the first trial (difference = −0.19; p < .0001), and their rate of improvement in retrieval speed was slower over subsequent trials. Those with aMCI also had greater within-person variability in processing speed (variance ratio = 1.22; p = .0098) and greater between-person variability in accuracy (variance ratio = 2.08; p = .0001) relative to HEA. Results are discussed in relation to the possibility that computer-based measures of cued-learning and processing speed variability may facilitate early detection of dementia in at-risk older adults. (JINS, 2012, 18, 260–268)
- Subjects
AMNESTIC mild cognitive impairment; MEMORY disorders; REACTION time; COMPUTER assisted instruction; LEARNING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL tests; RECOLLECTION (Psychology)
- Publication
Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 2012, Vol 18, Issue 2, p260
- ISSN
1355-6177
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1355617711001664