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Published in final edited form as: Cortex. 2018 Dec 4;113:191–209. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2018.11.021

Table 1.

Behavior and fMRI studies of recognition memory in PD

Study Task used Finding
No. of
Participants
Mean Age
Mean
Disease
Duration
(years)
PD and Dementia
Diagnostic Criteria
Major Clinical
Assessment
Tools
Recollection Familiarity
Davidson et al., 2006 Yes-no recognition
memory test and
remember-know-new
judgement
No
significant
impairmentin
PD
Impaired in
PD
19 PD
66.56
(experiment1),

16 PD
67.05
(experiment 2)
5.79


6.13
Criteria for PD
diagnosis not specified
MMSE
MHV

Edelstyn et al., 2007 Yes-no recognition
memory test and
remember-know
judgement
Impaired in
PD
Unimpaired
in PD
17 PD
65.4
8.6 Criteria for PD
diagnosis not specified
MMSE
NART
WAIS
WR

Cohn et al.,2010 Noun-noun pairs
recognition memory
test, deep and shallow
encoded
Impaired at
deep
encoding in
PD
Impaired at
shallow
encoding in
PD
11 PD
67
6.4 Criteria for PD
diagnosis not specified
MMSE

Algarabel et al., 2010 Yes-no recognition
memory test
Impaired in
PDD and
Advanced
PD
Impaired
only in PDD
20 Early PD
72.55

19 Advanced PD
75.58

10 PD Dementia
80.00
3.22


10.95


6.72
-PD diagnosis: UK
Brain Bank Criteria
-Dementia diagnosis
based on DSM-IV
criteria
MMSE
BNT
WMS
TMT-A

Weiermann et al., 2010 Yes-no recognition
memory for high and
low frequency words;
remember-know
judgement
Unimpaired
for high
frequency
words in PD
Poorer
sensitivity
index d’ for
familiarity in
PD
14 PD
63.2
9.43 Criteria for PD
diagnosis not specified
MMSE
Verbal
Intelligence
(NART)

Rodriguez et al., 2014 Word pairs
recognition memory
test, 2-alternative-
forced-choice test
Impaired in
PD
Unimpaired
in PD
20 PD
71.45
5.32 - PD diagnosis: UK
Brain Bank Criteria
-Dementia diagnosis
based on MDS criteria
(Emre et al., 2007)
- Dementia was
exclusion criteria
MMSE

Cohn et al., 2016 Associative
Reinstatement
Memory Task: fMRI
study
Impaired
with
decreased
hippocampa
l activation
Unimpaired
in PD
6 PD-noMCI
9 multidomain
PD-MCI
59.1
6.20 -PD diagnosis: UK
Brain Bank Criteria
-MCI diagnosis based
on MDS level 2 criteria
(Litvan et al., 2012)
MoCA
Color TMT- A
and B
WAIS
HVLT-R
Category
Fluency-
Animals

Pitarque et al., 2017 Face-scene picture
pairs recognition
memory test
Impaired in
PD
Unimpaired
in PD
32 non-
demented PD
69.63
Not
available
- PD diagnosis: UK
Brain Bank Criteria
-Criteria for Dementia
diagnosis not specified
-Dementia was
exclusion criteria
MMSE
WAIS
Vocabulary

Abbreviations: PDD: PD Dementia, MMSE: Mini-Mental State Examination, NART: The National Adult Reading Test, MHV: Mill Hill Vocabulary, WAIS: Wechsler Abbreviated Intelligence Scales, WR: Warrington Recognition, BNT: Boston Naming Test, WMS: Wechsler Memory Scale, TMT: Trail Making Test, MoCA: Montreal Cognitive Assessment, HVLT-R: Hopkins Verbal Learning Test-Revised MDS: Movement Disorders

All studies use behavioral methods except Cohn et al., 2016, which is an fMRI study.