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Brain, Vol. 124, No. 8, 1479-1481, August 2001
© 2001 Oxford University Press

Editorial

Theoretical and practical implications of dual-task performance in Alzheimer's disease

Sergio Della Sala and Robert H. Logie

Department of Psychology, University of Aberdeen, UK

The ability of human beings to perform more than one thing at a time has long been a focus of study in the literature on human attention and memory. Evidence from studies of healthy volunteers has suggested that there may be an identifiable cognitive function responsible for dual- or multi-task coordination in overall task performance. The failure of this coordination function is a characteristic impairment of mild Alzheimer's disease patients both in a laboratory setting (Baddeley et al., 1986; Della Sala et al., 1995; Greene et al., 1995; Collette et al., 1999; see also the paper by Baddeley et al. in this issue), and in everyday tasks . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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