Visual Detection of Affordances for Aperture Negotiation in People with Parkinson Disease

ConclusionsPD significantly impacted the affordances for aperture negotiation. Such altered perceptual affordances may contribute to gait pattern changes in people with PD when walking through doorways. These findings suggest that some of the motor symptoms in PD might have a perceptual underpinning.
Source: Neuropsychologia - Category: Neurology Source Type: research