Bingo! Externally Supported Performance Intervention for Deficient Visual Search in Normal Aging, Parkinson's Disease, and Alzheimer's Disease

Overview

Journal Neuropsychol Dev Cogn B Aging Neuropsychol Cogn

Date 2011 Nov 10

PMID 22066941

Citations 9

Authors

Thomas M Laudate

Sandy Neargarder

Tracy E Dunne

Karen D Sullivan

Pallavi Joshi

Grover C Gilmore

Tatiana M Riedel

Alice Cronin-Golomb

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Abstract

External support may improve task performance regardless of an individual's ability to compensate for cognitive deficits through internally generated mechanisms. We investigated if performance of a complex, familiar visual search task (the game of bingo) could be enhanced in groups with suboptimal vision by providing external support through manipulation of task stimuli. Participants were 19 younger adults, 14 individuals with probable Alzheimer's disease (AD), 13 AD-matched healthy adults, 17 non-demented individuals with Parkinson's disease (PD), and 20 PD-matched healthy adults. We varied stimulus contrast, size, and visual complexity during game play. The externally supported performance interventions of increased stimulus size and decreased complexity resulted in improvements in performance by all groups. AD also obtained benefit from increasing contrast, presumably by compensating for their contrast sensitivity deficit. The general finding of improved performance across healthy and afflicted groups suggests the value of visual support as an easy-to-apply intervention to enhance cognitive performance.

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