Learning face–name associations in early-stage dementia: Comparing the effects of errorless learning and effortful processing Footnote

We are indebted to a number of people for their assistance. Sue Okell and Julia Brownlie provided valuable support in setting up the research, and Margaret Mooney was instrumental in helping to recruit participants. Professor Robert Logie and Dr Hazel Emslie provided methodological assistance, and Dr Rik Henson generously provided access to stimulus items. Dr Robert Jones offered helpful comments on an earlier draft of this paper. Finally, we would like to thank the staff of the Day Hospital for supporting the research, and most importantly the participants themselves for their enthusiastic and valued contribution. The work reported here formed part of Josephine Dunn's thesis for the doctorate in clinical psychology at University College London, awarded in 2003, which was supervised by Linda Clare.

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