Effects of Alzheimer’s Disease on visual target detection: a “peripheral bias”

Visual exploration is an omnipresent activity in everyday life, and might represent an important determinant of visual attention deficits in patients with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). The present study aimed at investigating visual search performance in AD patients, in particular target detection in th...

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Main Authors: Vanessa Vallejo, Dario Cazzoli, Luca Rampa, Giuseppe Angelo Zito, Flurin Feuerstein, Nicole Gruber, René Martin Müri, Urs Peter Mosimann, Tobias Nef
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnagi.2016.00200/full