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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neurology

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  • Visual search patterns are altered in dementia subtypes.
  • Cortical regions for visual search overlap with those affected in behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD).
  • Prior studies on bvFTD visual search used smaller array sizes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate visual search behavior in bvFTD patients with increased cognitive load (larger arrays).
  • To model the impact of distractors on visual search in bvFTD.

Main Methods:

  • 15 bvFTD and 17 control participants completed color, orientation, and conjunction visual search tasks.
  • Array sizes ranged from 16 to 100 items.
  • Behavior was measured via accuracy, response time, and eye movements.

Main Results:

  • bvFTD participants showed lower accuracy and longer response times across all tasks.
  • Increased number of objects examined and fixations were observed in bvFTD for color and conjunction searches.
  • Fixation duration increased for orientation and conjunction tasks in bvFTD, indicating task difficulty impacts eye movement patterns.

Conclusions:

  • bvFTD patients exhibit decreased accuracy, increased response time, and more extensive eye movements during visual search.
  • This visual search pattern aligns with findings of frontal lobe damage.
  • The observed pattern differs from visual search deficits in other cognitive conditions.