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Brain, Vol. 107, No. 1, 309-324, 1984
© 1984 Oxford University Press

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VISUAL PROCESSING DEFICITS AS ASSESSED BY SPATIAL FREQUENCY CONTRAST SENSITIVITY AND BACKWARD MASKING IN NORMAL AGEING AND ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE

G. SCHLOTTERER1, M. MOSCOVITCH and D. CRAPPER-MCLACHLAN

From the Department of Psychology, Erindale College, University of Toronto Mississauga, Ontario The Toronto General Hospital Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Correspondence to: Reprint requests to Dr M. Moscovitch, Psychology Department, Erindale College, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5L IC6.

Visual functions of patients with senile dementia of the Alzheimer type were compared with those of young people and age-matched controls. Visual acuity and spatial frequency contrast sensitivity did not differ significantly between Alzheimer patients and normal elderly subjects, although both were impaired in comparison with young subjects. Alzheimer patients required more time than ageing controls to identify letters and were susceptible to the interfering effects of a backward pattern mask on letter recognition over a longer interval. The spatial extent over which the pattern mask was effective, as well as the time interval over which a homogeneous mask interfered with letter recognition, were equivalent in normal old people and Alzheimer patients. In all the masking tasks, young people performed better than the old. It is suggested that Alzheimer's disease affects later central visual functions more than early relatively peripheral ones.

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Received March 15, 1983. Revised July 7, 1983.

1Present address: Department of Psychology, Cornwall General Hospital, Cornwall, Ontario, Canada.


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