NDLI: Dealing with Illumination in Visual Scenes: Effects of Ageing and Alzheimer's Disease

Content Provider	PubMed Central
Author	Porter, Gillian Leonards, Ute Troscianko, Tom Haworth, Judy Bayer, Antony Tales, Andrea
Editor	Reddy, Hemachandra
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	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. Participants searched for a discrepant target among items which appeared as posts with shadows cast by light-from-above when upright, but as angled objects when inverted. As in earlier reports, young participants gave slower responses with upright than inverted displays when the shadow-like part was dark but not white (control condition). This is consistent with visual processing mechanisms making shadows difficult to perceive, presumably to assist object recognition under varied illumination. Contrary to predictions, this interaction of “shadow” colour with item orientation was maintained in healthy older and AD groups. Thus, the processing mechanisms which assist complex light-independent object identification appear to be robust to the effects of both ageing and AD. Importantly, this means that the complexity of a function does not necessarily determine its vulnerability to age- or AD-related decline.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0045104
Starting Page	45104
File Format	PDF
ISSN	19326203
e-ISSN	19326203
Journal	PLoS ONE
Issue Number	9
Volume Number	7
Language	English
Publisher	Public Library of Science
Publisher Date	2012-09-24
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	Public Library of Science
Subject Keyword	Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Multidisciplinary

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