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dc.contributor.authorLee, Stephen D
dc.contributor.authorOng, Ben
dc.contributor.authorPike, Kerryn E
dc.contributor.authorKinsella, Glynda J
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-11T06:11:02Z
dc.date.available2022-04-11T06:11:02Z
dc.date.issued2018
dc.identifier.issn1380-3395en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/13803395.2017.1326465en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/413843
dc.description.abstractIntroduction: Prospective memory difficulties are known to occur in Alzheimer’s disease, and may provide an early indicator of cognitive decline. Older people reporting high levels of subjective memory decline (SMD) but without evidence of cognitive decline on standard neuropsychological tests are increasingly considered at increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease. Therefore, the objective of this study was to investigate whether prospective memory performance is differentially impaired in older people reporting high levels of SMD as compared to a control group. Method: A total of 195 community-dwelling older adults (Mage = 73.48 years) were assessed for self-reported complaints of memory decline and allocated to either a group reporting high levels of SMD (SMD, n = 96) or a healthy control group (HC, n = 99). Groups were assessed on neuropsychological tests, an experimental prospective memory task (focal vs. nonfocal cue conditions), and a naturalistic prospective memory task. Results: The groups did not differ in performance on standard neuropsychological tests of working memory, executive attention, and episodic retrospective memory. Furthermore, on an experimental task of prospective memory (the Supermarket Shopping Trip task), although performance of both groups was better when cues for prospective memory were focal to the ongoing activity (η2 =.35), the SMD group were not impaired relative to the control group. On a naturalistic prospective memory task, however, there was a small but significant effect, with the SMD group performing more poorly than the HC group (η2 =.02). Conclusions: In older adults with high levels of SMD, naturalistic measures of prospective memory provide an approach to assessing memory performance that can offer a means of investigating the memory complaints of people with SMD. Identifying prospective memory difficulties in SMD also offers a focus for intervention.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.publisherRoutledge: Taylor & Francis Groupen_US
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom183en_US
dc.relation.ispartofpageto197en_US
dc.relation.ispartofissue2en_US
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychologyen_US
dc.relation.ispartofvolume40en_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchClinical neuropsychologyen_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchPsychology of ageingen_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode520301en_US
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode520106en_US
dc.subject.keywordsSocial Sciencesen_US
dc.subject.keywordsScience & Technologyen_US
dc.subject.keywordsLife Sciences & Biomedicineen_US
dc.subject.keywordsPsychology, Clinicalen_US
dc.subject.keywordsClinical Neurologyen_US
dc.titleProspective memory and subjective memory decline: A neuropsychological indicator of memory difficulties in community-dwelling older peopleen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dcterms.bibliographicCitationLee, SD; Ong, B; Pike, KE; Kinsella, GJ, Prospective memory and subjective memory decline: A neuropsychological indicator of memory difficulties in community-dwelling older people, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology, 2018, 40 (2), pp. 183-197en_US
dc.date.updated2022-04-07T03:30:45Z
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