Practice makes imperfect: Positive correlation between practice and implicit distraction in asymptomatic individuals with Alzheimer’s disease pathology

Our recent research showed that cognitively healthy older participants with higher biochemical risk to develop Alzheimer’s disease were more distracted by an incompatible and implicit visual stimulus, which was not observed in low‐risk older participants. This finding shed light on using psychophysical experiments to early identify high‐risk older participants. Here we further examined the role of practice based on our findings in the young healthy participants where implicit distracting information processing was enhanced after practice. We expected the effect of practice on processing the implicit distractor in high‐risk and low‐risk participants would bifurcate.