Article Dans Une Revue Psychological Reports Année : 2022

Does Sex Matter? High Semantic Autobiographical Retrieval in Women and Men With Alzheimer’s Disease

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The decline of autobiographical memory in Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is mainly characterized by overgenerality. While there is a large body of research on autobiographical overgenerality in AD, this research has mainly assessed retrieval with a dichotomy between specific vs. general retrieval. To go beyond this dichotomy, we assessed several degrees of autobiographical specificity in patients with AD, namely, we assessed specific vs. categoric vs. extended vs. semantic retrieval. We also assessed sex differences regarding these degrees of autobiographical specificity. We invited patients with mild AD and control participants to complete sentences (e. g., “When I think back to/of…”) with autobiographical memories. Memories were categorized into specific, categoric, extended, or semantic memories. Results demonstrated more semantic than specific, categoric or extended memories in men and women with AD. In control participants, analysis demonstrated more specific than categoric, extended, and semantic memories in men and women. Also, no significant differences were observed between women and men with AD, or between control women and men, regarding specific, categoric, extended, and semantic memoires. This study offers not only a nuanced analysis of autobiographical specificity in patients with mild AD, but also an original analysis regarding this specificity by sex.

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hal-04257940 , version 1 (25-10-2023)

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Mohamad El Haj, Philippe Allain, Claire Boutoleau-Bretonnière, Guillaume Chapelet, Dimitrios Kapogiannis, et al.. Does Sex Matter? High Semantic Autobiographical Retrieval in Women and Men With Alzheimer’s Disease. Psychological Reports, 2022, pp.003329412211302. ⟨10.1177/00332941221130223⟩. ⟨hal-04257940⟩
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