Draw me a zebra: Study of an item-drawing protocol to assess semantic memory in a memory clinic

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30 Oct 2026 0 comments

BackgroundSemantic memory is often impaired in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer's disease and frontotemporal lobar degeneration. Evaluating it requires cross-referencing the results of different tests in several modalities. However, most of the available tests only assess verbal production, which may be altered by conditions other than semantic deficits, making interpretation more difficult.ObjectiveTo evaluate the Item Drawing Test (IDT), a non-verbal semantic production task, and...