The Retrograde Memory for News Events Test (RM-NET) and the Relationship between News Event Memory and Performance on Standard Neuropsychological Tests

Autor/inn/en	Cawley-Bennett, Andrew T. J.; Frascino, Jennifer C.; Asp, Isabel E.; Golshan, Shahrokh; Bondi, Mark W.; Luo, Zhishang; Smith, Christine N.
Titel	The Retrograde Memory for News Events Test (RM-NET) and the Relationship between News Event Memory and Performance on Standard Neuropsychological Tests
Quelle	In: Learning & Memory, 29 (2022) 10, S.367-378 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Cawley-Bennett, Andrew T. J.) ORCID (Frascino, Jennifer C.) ORCID (Asp, Isabel E.) ORCID (Bondi, Mark W.) ORCID (Smith, Christine N.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1072-0502
Schlagwörter	News Reporting; Current Events; Memory; Neurological Impairments; Cognitive Measurement; Cognitive Tests; Older Adults; Neuropsychology; Scores + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? News report; Reportage; Aktualität; Gedächtnis; Neurodegenerative Erkrankung; Kognitiver Fähigkeitstest; Älterer Erwachsener; Neuropsychologie
Abstract	Novel tests of semantic memory (SM)--for example, memory for news events (NE; news facts) or famous personalities--are useful for estimating the severity of retrograde amnesia. Individuals with mild cognitive impairment exhibit relatively intact SM/language on traditional neuropsychological tests but exhibit consistent impairment on novel tests of SM, suggesting novel SM tests are dissimilar from traditional SM tests. To identify the relationship between NE memory and traditional cognitive measures, older adults (N = 51) completed a traditional neuropsychological battery and the Retrograde Memory News Events Test (RM-NET; a new test that robustly measures NE memory across the adult life span with high temporal resolution), and the relationship between performance on these tests was examined. Total RM-NET scores were more closely aligned with episodic memory scores than SM scores. The strength of the association between NE scores and episodic memory scores decreased as the age of NE memory increased. Tests of news events appear to reflect performance on traditional tests of episodic memory rather than SM, especially when recent news events are tested. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01