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The subjective experience of recollection and familiarity in Alzheimer's disease

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 January 2020

Dimitrios Kapogiannis
Affiliation:
Laboratory of Neurosciences, National Institute on Aging, Baltimore21200, [email protected]://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dimitrios_Kapogiannis
Mohamad El Haj
Affiliation:
Nantes Université, Univ Angers, Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire (LPPL - EA 4638), F-44000Nantes, [email protected]://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mohamad_El_Haj2 Unité de Gériatrie, Centre Hospitalier de Tourcoing, 59120Tourcoing, France Institut Universitaire de France, 75000Paris, France

Abstract

Although the integrative memory model proposed by Bastin et al. is interesting, particularly for Alzheimer's disease, it may benefit from incorporating the subjective experience of recollection. We therefore offer complementary lines of interpretation to explain how recollection and familiarity in Alzheimer's disease can be dissociated based not only on accounts of their neural correlates but, critically, on the subjective experience of memory in patients.

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Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2020

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