Enhanced stimulus contrast normalizes visual processing of rapidly presented letters in Alzheimer's disease

Vision Research

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1013-1020

  Gilmore, Grover C ^a   Cronin Golomb, Alice ^b   Neargarder, Sandy A ^b,c   Morrison, Sarah R ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Alzheimer's disease; Cognition; Contrast; Masking

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA DISEASE; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL MASKING; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 13444309229     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2004.10.017     Document Type: Article

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