Open AccessEye Tracking Analysis of Visual Cues during Wayfinding in Early Stage Alzheimer’s Disease
Author(s) -
Rebecca L. Davis,
Alla Sikorskii
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
dementia and geriatric cognitive disorders
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.026
H-Index - 110
eISSN - 1421-9824
pISSN - 1420-8008
DOI - 10.1159/000506859
Subject(s) - psychology , sensory cue , audiology , eye tracking , eye movement , cognitive psychology , medicine , neuroscience , artificial intelligence , computer science
Persons with Alzheimer's disease (AD) have profound impairment in wayfinding, potentially related to a deficit in visual attention and selection of relevant environmental information. This study sought to determine differences in visual attention to salient visual cues and nonsalient cues (building features) in older adults with and without AD during active wayfinding in a large-scale, virtual reality spatial task.