Putting the Pieces Together: Mental Construction of Semantically Congruent and Incongruent Scenes in Dementia.

ABSTRACT: Scene construction refers to the process by which humans generate richly detailed and spatially cohesive scenes in the mind's eye. The cognitive processes that underwrite this capacity remain unclear, particularly when the envisaged scene calls for the integration of various types of contextual information. Here, we explored social and non-social forms of scene construction in Alzheimer's disease (AD; n = 11) and the behavioural variant of frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD; n = 15) relative to healthy older control participants (n = 16) using a novel adaptation of the scene construction task. Participants mentally constructed detailed scenes in response to scene-object cues that varied in terms of their sociality (social; non-social) and congruence (congruent; incongruent). A significant grou

SUBMITTER: Wilson NA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8773466 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature