November 23, 2015by Patricia Inacio, PhDIn News. In a new study entitled “Critical Flicker Fusion Predicts Executive Function in Younger and Older Adults,” a team of researchers developed a new device that allows for a precise assessment of an individuals’ visual processing speed, i.e., how fast can a person can understand visual information. This device is a potential new strategy for assessing early cognitive impairments associated…
Critical flicker fusion in early detection of Alzheimer’s disease
In March of 2000 S. Curran and J. Wattis published an article titled Critical flicker fusion threshold: a potentially useful measure for the early detection of Alzheimer’s disease. The full text of the article is only available via paid subscription, however, portions of its Abstract are presented below. Most curious though is why after 16 years has this method of diagnosis not become mainstream? All…