[Le port du masque affecte l'identification des expressions faciales émotionnelles, surtout chez les personnes âgées].

Younger adults have difficulties identifying emotional facial expressions from faces covered by face masks. It is important to evaluate how face mask wearing might specifically impact older people, because they have lower emotion identification performance than younger adults, even without face masks. We compared performance of 62 young and 38 older adults in an online task of emotional facial expression identification using masked or unmasked pictures of faces with fear, happiness, anger, surprise, and neutral expression, from different viewpoints.

Dissociation between Selecting and Orienting Attentional Reading Deficits: A Study in Adults with Epilepsy.

Word reading requires a range of spatial attention processes, such as orienting to a specific word and selecting it while ignoring other words. This study investigated whether deficits of these spatial attention processes can show dissociations after hemispheric lesions. Thirty-nine patients with left or right focal epilepsy and 66 healthy participants had to read aloud four-letter words presented in the left and right visual hemifields.

Cognitive aspects of attention disorders in Alzheimer's disease.

Attention deficits are encountered at a very early stage in the development of Alzheimer's disease. While these deficits may be detected using classic clinical tests or even through simple observation, experimental tools enable a more precise evaluation of these deficits, typically by differentiating between conditions in which the quantity of attention needed varies, and by recording response times, which allows for a more precise and modulated measurement. The sensitivity of these tools can be further increased by analysing the intra-individual variability of performance in these experiments, which is particularly significant during the earliest stages of the disease.

[Cognitive aspects of attention deficits in Alzheimer's disease].

Attention deficits are encountered very early in the development of Alzheimer's disease. While these deficits may be detected using classic clinical tests or even from simple observation, experimental tools enable a more precise evaluation of these deficits, typically by subtracting between conditions which vary the quantity of necessary attention, and by recording response times which allow a more precise and modulated measurement. The sensitivity of these tools can be further increased by analyzing the intra-individual variability of performance in these experiments, this variability being particularly important during the earliest stages of the disease.

[Visual perceptual disorders in Alzheimer's disease].

Visual perception is humans' preferred way for taking information on the surrounding world. Visual perception is frequently impaired in patients with Alzheimer's disease, lessening patients' quality of life, and making evaluation of other cognitive deficits more complicated. Our review covers the recent literature describing visual perception deficits in patients suffering from Alzheimer's disease by classifying them according to their neuroanatomical correspondence: retina, visual pathway, subcortical structures, occipital visual cortex, occipito-temporal "what" and occipito-parietal "where" pathways.