Age-related declines in occipital GABA are associated with reduced fluid processing ability

M Simmonite, J Carp, BR Foerster, L Ossher… - Academic radiology, 2019 - Elsevier
Rationale and Objectives Healthy aging is associated with pervasive declines in cognitive,
motor, and sensory functioning. There are, however, substantial individual differences in …

No evidence for a common factor underlying visual abilities in healthy older people.

A Shaqiri, KS Pilz, AF Cretenoud… - Developmental …, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
The world's population is aging at an increasing rate. Even in the absence of
neurodegenerative disorders, healthy aging affects perception and cognition. In the context …

Brain networks supporting perceptual grou** and contour selection

G Volberg, MW Greenlee - Frontiers in Psychology, 2014 - frontiersin.org
The human visual system groups local elements into global objects seemingly without effort.
Using a contour integration task and EEG source level analyses, we tested the hypothesis …

[HTML][HTML] Performance on a contour integration task as a function of contour shape in schizophrenia and controls

S Jayakumar, AO Ahmed, PD Butler, SM Silverstein… - Vision Research, 2024 - Elsevier
Contour Integration (CI) is the ability to integrate elemental features into objects and is a
basic visual process essential for object perception and recognition, and for functioning in …

Different trajectories of decline for global form and global motion processing in aging, mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease

G Porter, J Wattam-Bell, A Bayer, J Haworth… - Neurobiology of …, 2017 - Elsevier
The visual processing of complex motion is impaired in Alzheimer's disease (AD). However,
it is unclear whether these impairments are biased toward the motion stream or part of a …

Correcting visual acuity beyond 20/20 improves contour element detection and integration: A cautionary tale for studies of special populations

BP Keane, SM Silverstein, TV Papathomas… - Plos one, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Contrary to popular lore, optimal visual acuity is typically better than 20/20. Could correcting
acuity beyond 20/20 offer any benefit? An affirmative answer could present new confounds …

Testing the effects of perceptual grou** on visual search in older adults

L **gling, SN Lai - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Visual search is to find targets while ignoring distractors. Previous studies established that a
target is more difficult to identify if aligned collinearly with other items, called the collinear …

Pathological completion in the intact visual field of hemianopia patients

GV Paramei, O Favrod, BA Sabel, MH Herzog - Visual Cognition, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
We investigated figure segregation in the intact visual field (VF) of hemianopia patients.
Three patients and matched controls performed a Yes–No figure detection task, where …

Mirror symmetry and aging: The role of stimulus figurality and attention to colour

J Martinovic, J Huber, A Boyanova, E Gheorghiu… - Attention, Perception, & …, 2023 - Springer
Symmetry perception studies have generally used two stimulus types: figural and dot
patterns. Here, we designed a novel figural stimulus—a wedge pattern—made of centrally …