@article {987, title = {Normative data for the Rey-Osterrieth and the Taylor complex figure tests in Quebec-French people.}, journal = {Arch Clin Neuropsychol}, volume = {30}, year = {2015}, month = {2015 Feb}, pages = {78-87}, abstract = {

The Rey-Osterrieth (ROCF) and Taylor (TCF) complex figure tests are widely used to assess visuospatial and constructional abilities as well as visual/non-verbal memory. Normative data adjusted to the cultural and linguistic reality of older Quebec-French individuals is still nonexistent for these tests. In this article, we report the results of two studies that aimed to establish normative data for Quebec-French people (aged at least 50 years) for the copy, immediate recall, and delayed recall trials of the ROCF (Study 1) and the TCF (Study 2). For both studies, the impact of age, education, and sex on test performance was examined. Moreover, the impact of copy time on test performance, the impact of copy score on immediate and delayed recall score, and the impact of immediate recall score on delayed recall performance were examined. Based on regression models, equations to calculate Z scores for copy and recall scores are provided for both tests.

}, issn = {1873-5843}, doi = {10.1093/arclin/acu069}, author = {Tremblay, Marie-Pier and Potvin, Olivier and Callahan, Brandy L and Belleville, Sylvie and Gagnon, Jean-Fran{\c c}ois and Caza, Nicole and Ferland, Guylaine and Carol Hudon and Jo{\"e}l Macoir} } @article {1514, title = {True and false memories in adolescents with psychosis: evidence for impaired recollection and familiarity.}, journal = {Cogn Neuropsychiatry}, volume = {16}, year = {2011}, month = {2011 May}, pages = {218-40}, abstract = {

INTRODUCTION: Psychotic patients are impaired on recall and recognition of studied items (true memory) and typically make more false recall (intrusions) and false recognition than controls, reflecting greater susceptibility to false memory. The functional mechanisms underlying these deficits are poorly understood. The aim of this study was to examine recollection and familiarity in true and false memory in psychotic adolescents without long-term exposure to medication and repeated hospitalisations.

METHODS: Seventeen adolescents with psychosis and 17 matched controls were tested on a DRM false memory paradigm combined with a remember (R)/know (K)/guess (G) procedure. Recall and recognition of targets (studied words), critical lures (associated words) and unrelated distractors were measured. Between-group comparisons were made using t-tests and mixed ANOVAs. Independent estimates for recollection and familiarity were also calculated.

RESULTS: True memory was impaired in patients. Similar rates of false memory for critical lures were found in both groups. False memory for unrelated distractors was increased in patients. Contrary to controls, who attributed more R and K responses to targets than lures, patients attributed similar proportions of R and K responses to targets and lures. Furthermore, patients attributed more K responses than controls to all distractors.

CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest a deficit in recollection- and familiarity-based memory in psychotic adolescents as well as reliance on preserved gist or meaning-based memory to support poor item-specific memory.

}, keywords = {Adolescent, Executive Function, Female, Humans, Intelligence Tests, Male, Memory Disorders, Mental Recall, Neuropsychological Tests, Psychotic Disorders, Recognition (Psychology), Repression, Psychology}, issn = {1464-0619}, doi = {10.1080/13546805.2010.522026}, author = {Caza, Nicole and Dor{\'e}, Marie-Claire and Gingras, Nathalie and Nancie Rouleau} } @article {1329, title = {Effects of phonological and semantic cuing on encoding and retrieval processes in adolescent psychosis.}, journal = {J Clin Exp Neuropsychol}, volume = {31}, year = {2009}, month = {2009 Jul}, pages = {533-44}, abstract = {

The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of cuing on encoding and retrieval processes in adolescent psychosis. Patients and controls were instructed to learn word lists under three conditions: no cue, phonological cue, and semantic cue. Memory performance was measured with free and cued recalls. In free recall, both groups showed higher performance with semantic than with phonological encoding cues, but patients had no advantage from semantic cuing relative to no cue, contrary to controls. Patients{\textquoteright} performance improved from free to cued recall, but this was not sufficient to normalize their performance. Impaired strategic processes may lead to encoding and retrieval difficulties in patients.

}, keywords = {Adolescent, Analysis of Variance, Cues, Female, Humans, Language Therapy, Male, Mental Recall, Neuropsychological Tests, Phonetics, Problem Solving, Psychotic Disorders, Retention (Psychology), Semantics}, issn = {1744-411X}, doi = {10.1080/13803390802317567}, author = {Dor{\'e}, Marie-Claire and Caza, Nicole and Gingras, Nathalie and Michel Maziade and Nancie Rouleau} } @article {1518, title = {Deficient relational binding processes in adolescents with psychosis: evidence from impaired memory for source and temporal context.}, journal = {Cogn Neuropsychiatry}, volume = {12}, year = {2007}, month = {2007 Nov}, pages = {511-36}, abstract = {

INTRODUCTION: Findings from the literature consistently revealed episodic memory deficits in adolescents with psychosis. However, the nature of the dysfunction remains unclear. Based on a cognitive neuropsychological approach, a theoretically driven paradigm was used to generate valid interpretations about the underlying memory processes impaired in these patients.

METHODS: A total of 16 inpatient adolescents with psychosis and 19 individually matched controls were assessed using an experimental task designed to measure memory for source and temporal context of studied words. Retrospective confidence judgements for source and temporal context responses were also assessed.

RESULTS: On word recognition, patients had more difficulty than controls discriminating target words from neutral distractors. In addition, patients identified both source and temporal context features of recognised items less often than controls. Confidence judgements analyses revealed that the difference between the proportions of correct and incorrect responses made with high confidence was lower in patients than in controls. In addition, the proportion of high-confident responses that were errors was higher in patients compared to controls.

CONCLUSIONS: These findings suggest impaired relational binding processes in adolescents with psychosis, resulting in a difficulty to create unified memory representations. Our findings on retrospective confidence data point to impaired monitoring of retrieved information that may also impair memory performance in these individuals.

}, keywords = {Adolescent, Antipsychotic Agents, Association Learning, Attention, Bipolar Disorder, Drug Therapy, Combination, Female, Humans, Lithium Carbonate, Male, Memory Disorders, Mental Recall, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Psychotic Disorders, Schizophrenia, Schizophrenic Psychology, Time Perception, Verbal Learning}, issn = {1354-6805}, doi = {10.1080/13546800701614098}, author = {Dor{\'e}, Marie-Claire and Caza, Nicole and Gingras, Nathalie and Nancie Rouleau} }