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  • Neuroscience
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Medical Imaging

Background:

  • Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder.
  • Scene categorization is a complex cognitive function.
  • Visual processing deficits are common in AD.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate scene categorization performance in patients with mild Alzheimer's disease (AD).
  • To compare AD patients' performance with age-matched controls and young individuals.
  • To investigate the role of saccadic eye movements in scene perception in AD.

Main Methods:

  • A saccadic choice task was employed.
  • Participants included 24 mild AD patients, 28 age-matched controls, and 26 young controls.
  • Stimuli consisted of pairs of colored photographs requiring categorization (natural vs. urban, indoor vs. outdoor).

Main Results:

  • Alzheimer's disease patients' accuracy did not differ from chance for natural scenes.
  • Significant differences in accuracy were observed between young controls, older controls, and AD patients.
  • No significant differences in saccadic latency were found among the groups.

Conclusions:

  • Impaired processing of visual global properties of scenes may contribute to AD-related deficits.
  • Cerebral reorganization in prefrontal and temporo-occipital cortex might occur in AD patients.
  • Scene categorization deficits are a potential indicator of cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's disease.