@article{ref1,
title="Abnormal spatial and non-spatial cueing effects in mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease",
journal="Neurocase",
year="2005",
author="Tales, Andrea and Snowden, Robert J. and Haworth, Judy and Wilcock, Gordon K.",
volume="11",
number="1",
pages="85-92",
abstract="Our aim was to further characterize the clinical concept of mild cognitive impairment (MCI). We examined visual attention-related processing in 12 patients with amnestic MCI, 16 healthy older adults and 16 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) by measuring performance on computer-based tests of attentional disengagement, alerting ability, and inhibition of return. Unlike the healthy older controls, the patients with AD and the patients with amnestic MCI exhibited a significant detriment in both the ability to disengage attention from an incorrectly cued location and the ability to use a visual cue to produce an alerting effect. The pattern of results displayed by the MCI group indicates that patients who only appear clinically to suffer from a deficit in memory also display a deficit in specific aspects of visual attention-related processing, which closely resemble the magnitude seen in AD.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1355-4794",
doi="10.1080/13554790490896983",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13554790490896983"
}