Dealing with illumination in visual scenes: effects of ageing and Alzheimer's disease.

Various visual functions decline in ageing and even more so in patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD). Here we investigated whether the complex visual processes involved in ignoring illumination-related variability (specifically, cast shadows) in visual scenes may also be compromised. Participa...

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Main Authors: Gillian Porter, Ute Leonards, Tom Troscianko, Judy Haworth, Antony Bayer, Andrea Tales
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3454404?pdf=render