title: [Proceeding memory in Alzheimer's disease].
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.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Psicología, Univerisidad de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain. anlioa@usal.es
authors.forename: Eva Ma
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Arroyo-Anlló
authors.forename: Jorge
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chamorro-Sánchez
authors.forename: Juan Poveda
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Díaz-Marta
authors.forename: Roger
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Gil
mesh_terms: D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000523:psychology*; D003071:Cognition; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory
keywords: Alzheimer's disease; demencia; dementia; enfermedad de Alzheimer; memoria implícita; reaction time; rehabilitación; rehabilitation; repetition priming; tiempo de reacción