Eliminating visual clutter helps people with mild cognitive impairment
Monday, October 1, 2012 - 12:30
in Psychology & Sociology
A new study suggests that memory impairments for people diagnosed with early stage Alzheimer's disease may be due, in part, to problems in determining the differences between similar objects. The findings also support growing research indicating that a part of the brain once believed to support memory exclusively -- the medial temporal lobe -- also plays a role in object perception.