Sentence Context and Word-Picture Cued-Recall Paired-Associate Learning Procedure Boosts Recall in Normal and Mild Alzheimer’s Disease Patients

Table 2

Recall rates of the second element of the pair with and without sentence context.

	Groups
	18 mild AD				18 healthy older adults
Variables	Without sentence		With sentence		Without sentence		With sentence		Means
	Means	SD	Means	SD	Means	SD	Means	SD	Means	SD
Word/word	5.50	2.56	8.11	2.85	9.30	2.39	12.66	1.63	8.89	2.35
Word/picture	8.94	2.61	11.00	3.19	11.72	2.49	14.44	1.09	11.52	2.34
Means	7.22	2.58	9.55	3.02	10.51	2.44	13.55	1.36

ANOVA 2 × 2 × 2 was performed; variables encoding type word-word, word-picture, and the presence or absence of sentence context. The significance level was set at . A significant main effect in word-picture compared with word-word, and in sentences compared to the null sentence context condition, in both groups was found.