Word Processing Is Faster than Picture Processing in Alzheimer’s Disease

Table 1

Demographics for the two groups.

	AD	HC	value; (-test)
Age	78.8 (6.2)	67.9 (10.7)	0.003
Gender (M/W)	16/40	6/5
Education	9.7 (2.4)	12.7 (2.0)	0.001
MMSE	17.4 (5.3)	28.0 (2.0)	0.001
V.A.	0.4 (0.2)	0.7 (0.2)	0.02

AD = Alzheimer’s disease; HC = healthy control; M = men; W = women; MMSE = Mini-Mental State Examination; V.A. = visual acuity. There were significant differences in age, education, and near vision between the groups ().