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Source Memory And Generation Effects In Parkinson's Disease, Lynn Elizabeth Oelke
Source Memory And Generation Effects In Parkinson's Disease, Lynn Elizabeth Oelke
USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The primary aim of this study was to investigate source memory performance in individuals diagnosed with Parkinson's disease (PD). The secondary goal was to explore how memory was impacted when subjects were asked to generate responses during encoding. Fifty idiopathic PD patients and fifty healthy control subjects completed a task measuring item memory and source memory which also included a generation manipulation. Relative to controls, PD patients exhibited deficits in source memory but not item memory. Both groups demonstrated enhanced memory performance in the generative condition of the item memory task. The PD group displayed a marginally significant trend toward …