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Self-reference and emotional memory effects in older adults at increased genetic risk of Alzheimer's disease.
Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition - 1 Mar 2018
Grilli Matthew D, Woolverton Cindy B, Crawford Meli'sa, Glisky Elizabeth L
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The present study investigated whether cognitively healthy older adults who are carriers of the ε4 allele of apolipoprotein E, the most prevalent genetic risk factor for late-onset Alzheimer's disease, benefit from self-referential processing and emotional processing to the same degree as noncarriers of this gene. Participants encoded emotional and nonemotional narratives using a baseline-orienting task, semantic...
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