Abstract: AbstractBackgroundThe integrity of face identity recognition (FIR) in prodromal Alzheimer’s disease (prAD) is inconsistent in the literature, and the cognitive processes underpinning a potential impairment remain elusive. The concepts of pattern separation (PS) and pattern completion (PC) offer an interesting insight in this respect, since efficient FIR implies that facial identities are stored in at least partly distinct representations (corresponding to a PS process) and to fill‐in the currently perceived facial pattern based on these mne...
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Cognitive psychology