The Japanese journal of neuropsychology

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ArticleTitle	Why some patients remember many everyday events but fail to recall most of the words in the list: Dissociation between the scores of everyday-memory task and recent memory test in dementia
Language	J
AuthorList	Toru Imamura
Affiliation	Division of Speech, Hearing and Cognitive Sciences, Graduate School of Health Sciences, Niigata University of Health and Welfare Department of Neurology, Niigata Rehabilitation Hospital
Publication	Japanese Journal of Neuropsychology: 30 (3), 195-203, 2014
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Accepted
Abstract	Everyday memory is a type of memory required in actual daily life. In patients with dementia, we sometimes find a dissociation between impairment in everyday memory and deterioration in the score of a recent memory test. We examined the patients whose autobiographical memory in their daily life is preserved when compared to the performance in a word recall task. These patients had significantly better scores of the construction task and orientation task than did the other patients. In those patients, relatively better visual cognition and orientation may support everyday memory.
Keywords	everyday memory, word list learning, dementia, Everyday Memory Test for Memory Clinic