Motoric encoding and retention of pictures in Alzheimer's disease

20 patients with Alzheimer`s disease were shown line drawings of common obj ects on tno trials. During the second trial they were asked to pantomime an action for the object and then provided a standard motoric cue or were ask ed to name it and then provided a standard semantic cue. Semantic cueing sc n-ed as a stimulus-processing control condition. Memory for pictures was as sessed at a 48-hr, delay interval using a yes-no recognition-memory procedu re. Discrimination of stimulus pictures from distractors at 48 hours was si milar for the motoric and control (semantic) encoding condition. These find ings suggest thar motoric encoding does not enhance long-term retention of episodic memories for pictures in such patients.