title: Context memory in Alzheimer's disease.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease characterized by a gradual loss of memory. Specifically, context aspects of memory are impaired in AD. Our review sheds light on the neurocognitive mechanisms of this memory component that forms the core of episodic memory function.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Context recall, an element of episodic memory, refers to remembering the context in which an event has occurred, such as from whom or to whom information has been transmitted.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our review raises crucial questions. For example, (1) which context element is more prone to being forgotten in the disease? (2) How do AD patients fail to bind context features together? (3) May distinctiveness heuristic or decisions based on metacognitive expectations improve context retrieval in these patients? (4) How does cueing at retrieval enhance reinstating of encoding context in AD? By addressing these questions, our work contributes to the understanding of the memory deficits in AD.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire Epsylon, EA 4556, Université Paul-Valery, Montpellier III, Montpellier, France ; Laboratoire de Psychologie des Pays de la Loire, L'Université Nantes Angers Le Mans (L'UNAM), Angers, France ; Neuropsychology and Auditory Cognition, Department of Psychology, University of Lille 3, Lille, France.
authors.forename: Mohamad
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: El Haj
authors.affiliation: Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands ; Vincent van Gogh Institute for Psychiatry, Korsakoff Clinic, Venray, The Netherlands ; Department of Medical Psychology, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Roy P C
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Kessels
keywords: Alzheimer's disease; Binding; Context memory; Diagnosis; Episodic memory