Fluency-based memory decisions in Alzheimer’s disease: A matter of source detection?

The primary aim of this study was to test whether differences in the ability of patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) and healthy participants to detect alternative sources of fluency can account for differences observed in the use of fluency-that is, the ease with which information is processed-as a cue for memory.Twenty-two patients with AD and 22 matched controls were presented with three forced-choice visual recognition tests. In each test,...