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Visual search, eye movements and daily activities in Alzheimer's disease

What is it about?

Many instrumental activities of daily living (IADLs), like cooking and managing finances, involve finding efficiently one or several objects within complex environments. IADLs may thus be disrupted by visual search deficits. Little is known about how AD patients search in real-world scenes, and about how visual search impairments affect patients’ autonomy. Here, we review studies on visuospatial attention and visual search in AD. We consider why analysis of patients’ oculomotor behavior is promising to improve understanding of the specific search deficits in AD, and of their role in impairing IADL performance.

Why is it important?

We indicate future research directions that may offer new insights to improve visual search abilities and autonomy in AD patients.

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Hanane Ramzaoui
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