Research Article

On Colour, Category Effects, and Alzheimer’s Disease: A Critical Review of Studies and Further Longitudinal Evidence

Table 1

Background information about the participants in the study (means and standard deviation, in brackets).

NC-CNC-GAD-1AD-2

Gender (m/f)7/66/71/10
Years of education4.8 (0.9)5.4 (2.6)5.8 (0.4)
Age77.5 (6.4)74.5 (3.7)75.8 (4.0)78.7 (4.3)
MMSE28.5 (1.5)29.5 (1.3)21.3 (4.8)19.2 (6.0)

Note. NC-C = normal control group (colour version), NC-G = normal control group (greyscale version), AD-1/AD-2 = Alzheimer’s disease group (first and second time-points), and MMSE = Mini Mental State Examination.
Same values as AD-1.