A biased competition account of attention and memory in Alzheimer's disease.

Journal article

The common view of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is that of an age-related memory disorder, i.e. declarative memory deficits are the first signs of the disease and associated with progressive brain changes in the medial temporal lobes and the default mode network. However, two findings challenge this view. First, new model-based tools of attention research have revealed that impaired selective attention accompanies memory deficits from early pre-dementia AD stages on. Second, very early distribute...

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Authors: Finke, K; Myers, N; Bublak, P; Sorg, C

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences
• Volume: 368
• Issue: 1628
• Pages: 20130062
• Publication date: 2013-10-01
• DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2013.0062
• EISSN: 1471-2970
• ISSN: 0962-8436
• Language: English
• Keywords: Attention; Cognition; Alzheimer Disease; Humans; Parietal Lobe; Memory; Visual Perception; Field Dependence-Independence; Models, Neurological