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ArticleTitle	False recall and false recognition in word recall and recognition tasks in patients with Alzheimer's disease
Language	J
AuthorList	Toru Imamura
Affiliation	Division of Speech, Hearing and Cognitive Sciences, Graduate School of Health and Welfare, Niigata University of Health and Welfare
Publication	Japanese Journal of Neuropsychology: 32 (1), 21-30, 2016
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Accepted
Abstract	False recall and false recognition in word list recall and recognition tasks are one of the simplest kinds of false memory. This paper reviewed our studies for false recall and false recognition in the Word Recall and the Word Recognition tasks in the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale (ADAS) in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Impairments in the retrieval monitoring process for recall and recognition, which stem from frontal lobe dysfunction, have an important role both for false recall and false recognition in the ADAS tasks. In addition, preservation of encoding process of target word is important for target-word related false recall in the ADAS Word Recall task, which consisted of false recall of the words either with the same semantic categories as one of the target words or with a letter in common with one of the target words.
Keywords	false memory, Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale (ADAS), encoding, retrieval, frontal lobe dysfunction