Proceeding memory in Alzheimer’s disease
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Keywords
Dementia, Alzheimer disease, Rehabilitation, Repetition priming, Reaction time
Abstract
Procedural learning can acquire or develop skills through performance and repetition of a task unconsciously or unintentionally. Procedural skills are considered as the cornerstone in the neuropsychological rehabilitation to promote the autonomy of patients with brain damage, as those with Alzheimer’s disease. This review presents data about procedural skills in Alzheimer’s disease. Over the past three decades, we have found 40 articles studying various procedural skills in the Alzheimer’s disease: motor, perceptual-motor, cognitive, perceptual-cognitive and those developed through serial reaction-time paradigm. We analyzed every study evaluating a procedural skill, indicating the used task and preservation or no preservation of procedural learning. Overall, most of the papers published describe conservation of learning procedures or relatively conserved in Alzheimer’s disease, which could be used to promote patient autonomy.
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