1. CONTENT TABLE
Abstract ............................................................................................................. 1
INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................ 2
Division of memory .......................................................................................... 2
Methods of memory testing .............................................................................. 3
Alzheimer' s disease .......................................................................................... 4
Implicit memory in Alzheimer' s disease .......................................................... 6
LITERATURE REVIEW ...................................................................................... 8
META-ANALYSIS .............................................................................................. 25
Categories of meta-analysis combination ......................................................... 26
i.sample size ................................................................................................. 26
ii. difference between the mean ages of the AD and the control group.......... 26
iii. dementia severity .................................................................................... 26
iv.number of exposures of stimuli ................................................................ 30
v.orienting task ............................................................................................. 30
Methodology ...................................................................................................... 32
RESULTS .............................................................................................................. 33
Calculation of the average group-comparison size effects ................................ 33
Calculation of the average AD priming size effects .......................................... 33
i.sample size.................................................................................................... 34
ii. difference between the mean ages of the AD and the control group ....... 34
iii. dementia severity ..................................................................................... 35
iv.number of exposures of stimuli ................................................................. 35
v.orienting task .............................................................................................. 35
DISCUSSION ........................................................................................................ 36
CONCLUSIONS .................................................................................................... 37
GENERAL DISCUSSION ...................................................................................... 39
Explicit memory of controls .............................................................................. 39
Associations with other tests ............................................................................. 40

2. AD and the transfer-appropriate processing ...................................................... 42
Semantic memory in AD .................................................................................. 43
Nature of stem-completion ............................................................................... 46
EXPERIMENT .................................................................................................... 51
Memory in healthy aging .................................................................................. 54
Methodology ..................................................................................................... 59
---Participants ................................................................................................... 59
---Design ........................................................................................................... 60
---Materials ....................................................................................................... 61
Procedure .......................................................................................................... 61
RESULTS ............................................................................................................ 63
Stem-completion ............................................................................................... 63
---young-old controls ........................................................................................ 63
--- matched old controls-AD patients ............................................................... 65
Cued-recall ...................................................................................................... 67
---young-old controls ........................................................................................ 67
--- matched old controls-AD patients ............................................................... 68
Analysis of responses by word-frequency .................................................... 69
---young-old controls ........................................................................................ 69
--- matched old controls-AD patients ............................................................... 69
DISCUSSION ....................................................................................................... 74
Young-old controls ........................................................................................... 74
Matched old controls-AD patients .................................................................... 77
CONCLUSIONS ................................................................................................... 80
References ……………………………………………………………………. 87