title: Selective Reminding and Free and Cued Selective Reminding in Mild Cognitive Impairment and Alzheimer Disease.
abstract: The Selective Reminding Test (SRT) and the Free and Cued Selective Reminding Test (FCSRT) are multitrial memory tests that use a common "selective reminding" paradigm that aims to facilitate learning by presenting only the missing words from the previous recall trial. While in the FCSRT semantic cues are provided to elicit recall, in the SRT, participants are merely reminded of the missing items by repeating them. These tests have been used to assess age-related memory changes and to predict dementia. The performance of healthy elders on these tests has been compared before, and results have shown that twice as many words were retrieved from long-term memory in the FCSRT compared with the SRT. In this study, we compared the tests' properties and their accuracy in discriminating amnestic mild cognitive impairment (aMCI; n = 20) from Alzheimer disease (AD; n = 18). Patients with AD performed significantly worse than patients with aMCI on both tests. The percentage of items recalled during the learning trials was significantly higher for the FCSRT in both groups, and a higher number of items were later retrieved, showing the benefit of category cueing. Our key finding was that the FCSRT showed higher accuracy in discriminating patients with aMCI from those with AD.
authors.affiliation: a Visual Neuroscience Laboratory, Institute of Biomedical Research in Light and Image, Faculty of Medicine , University of Coimbra , Coimbra , Portugal.|b Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences , University of Coimbra , Coimbra , Portugal.
authors.forename: Raquel
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Lemos
authors.affiliation: b Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences , University of Coimbra , Coimbra , Portugal.
authors.forename: Ana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Afonso
authors.affiliation: c Faculty of Humanities , University of Coimbra , Coimbra , Portugal.
authors.forename: Cristina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Martins
authors.affiliation: d Private Practice (Clinical and Forensic Psychology and Neuropsychology) , Boulder , Colorado.
authors.forename: James H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Waters
authors.affiliation: e Neurology Department , Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra , Coimbra , Portugal.
authors.forename: Filipe Sobral
authors.initials: FS
authors.lastname: Blanco
authors.affiliation: b Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences , University of Coimbra , Coimbra , Portugal.
authors.forename: Mário R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Simões
authors.affiliation: e Neurology Department , Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra , Coimbra , Portugal.|f Faculty of Medicine , University of Coimbra , Coimbra , Portugal.
authors.forename: Isabel
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Santana
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000544:Alzheimer Disease / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology; D001245:Association Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D016009:Chi-Square Distribution; D060825:Cognitive Dysfunction / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000523:psychology; D003463:Cues; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011939:Mental Recall / Q000502:physiology*; D008609:Mental Status Schedule; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011932:Reading; D012660:Semantics
keywords: Alzheimer disease; free and cued selective reminding test; mild cognitive impairment; selective reminding test