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8413900

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
1993-11-23
pubmed:abstractText
A Famous Faces Test designed to assess face recognition, spontaneous naming, verbal identification of un-named faces, and cued naming using semantic and phonetic cues was administered to 22 patients with dementia of Alzheimer type (DAT) and 25 matched controls. The DAT patients were significantly impaired in all test conditions with evidence of a temporal gradient for recognition, identification and naming with phonemic cues, but not for spontaneous naming or naming with semantic cues. Analysis of the effects of disease severity showed that performance in all five conditions of the test declined with increasing disease severity, but this did not reach significance for recognition or for naming with phonemic cues. The DAT patients identified and named a significantly smaller proportion of the faces that they recognized than did the controls, and at no stage was identification significantly better than spontaneous naming. These findings indicate that the primary deficit was not one of name access, but an actual loss of stored knowledge about the person represented. In keeping with this observation, semantic cueing did not aid naming. These findings are discussed in the context of contemporary cognitive models of face processing.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Aug
pubmed:issn
0028-3932
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
31
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
775-88
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-11
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1993
pubmed:articleTitle
Recognition and naming of famous faces in Alzheimer's disease: a cognitive analysis.
pubmed:affiliation
University of Cambridge Clinical School, U.K.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't