1 Department of Psychology, Centre for Research in Human Development>, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
2 Centre for Research on Brain, Language, and Music, Montréal, Québec, Canada.
3 Institute of Computational Linguistics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
4 School of Optometry, Université de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
5 Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montréal, Québec, Canada.

CONCLUSION: Our findings demonstrate poor visual performance in AD and that both group membership and visual performance are predictors of cortical pathology, consistent with the idea that atrophy in visual areas and pathways contributes to the functional vision deficits observed in AD.