Assessing age-related multisensory enhancement with the time-window-of-integration model

Diederich, Adele; Colonius, Hans; Schomburg, Annette

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2008.03.026

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“…If at all, a statistical trend suggested that for the older participants, for the shortest T2 lag, T2 performance might benefit from a sound presented simultaneously with T1. This trend is compatible with the reports of a wider time window over which integration of auditory and visual stimuli can occur for older adults (Diederich et al, 2008;Laurienti et al, 2006). That the predicted increased positive effect of a sound on target identification could not be observed reliably might relate to the fact that even though the sound was reliably linked with the occurrence of a target, sound probability within a block was not 100%.…”

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“…(Kranczioch & Thorne, 2013, 2015b The auditory stimulus was a 750 Hz sound played for 32 ms via two speakers placed left and right of the stimulus presentation monitor at comfortable loudness (50 dBA). Similar to other studies (Campbell, AlAidroos, Fatt, Pratt, & Hasher, 2010;Diederich et al, 2008), loudness was the same for all participants and it was confirmed before the start of the experiment that all participants could hear the sound without difficulties and that none of the participants perceived the auditory stimulus as too soft or too loud. The sound included a 5 ms fade-in and fade-out time to avoid clicks.…”

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“…For instance, Peiffer and colleagues (Peiffer, Mozolic, Hugenschmidt, & Laurienti, 2007) used a simple response time (RT) task and could show that RTs did not differ between younger and older adults for the unisensory auditory and visual conditions, whereas older adults were faster than younger adults in the multisensory condition. Diederich and colleagues (Diederich, Colonius, & Schomburg, 2008) replicated the finding of greater speeding of responses to multisensory targets in older adults in a saccadic RT task. In addition, the analysis methods applied by Diederich et al (2008) indicated that older adults possess a wider time window over which integration of auditory and visual stimuli can occur (see also Laurienti, Burdette, Maldjian, & Wallace, 2006).…”

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“…Diederich and colleagues (Diederich, Colonius, & Schomburg, 2008) replicated the finding of greater speeding of responses to multisensory targets in older adults in a saccadic RT task. In addition, the analysis methods applied by Diederich et al (2008) indicated that older adults possess a wider time window over which integration of auditory and visual stimuli can occur (see also Laurienti, Burdette, Maldjian, & Wallace, 2006). Based on these findings, for the AB paradigm with additional task irrelevant sound the prediction can be derived that older participants will benefit more in target identification from the simultaneous sound than younger adults.…”

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Examining the effect of age on auditory enhancement of visual-temporal attention

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Knäpper

Klein

2018

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Examining the effect of age on auditory enhancement of visual-temporal attention

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2018

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“…Older adults benefited more from multisensory presentations than younger adults as evidenced by increased saccadic trajectory deviations away from task-irrelevant distractors during crossmodal compared to unimodal presentations. Furthermore, previous studies using concurrent presentations of auditory and visual stimuli in simple detection tasks showed enhanced crossmodal facilitation in older compared to younger adults (Diederich, Colonius, & Schomburg, 2008;Laurienti, Burdette, Maldjian, & Wallace, 2006;Peiffer, Mozolic, Hugenschmidt, & Laurienti, 2007). On the other hand, although older adults benefit more than young adults from temporally-and semantically-congruent cross-modal information, they also show greater impairment in integrating incongruent cross-modal inputs (Poliakoff, Coward, Lowe, & O'Boyle, 2007;Poliakoff, Shore, Lowe, & Spence, 2006;Setti et al, 2011).…”

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Visual dominance and multisensory integration changes with age

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Objects comprise of visual and auditory signatures that arrive through distinct sensory channels. Exposure to cross-modal events sets up expectations about what a given object most likely "sounds" like, and vice versa, thereby facilitating detection and recognition. Whereas episodic and working memory functions decline with age, the extent to which multisensory integration processes change with age remains an open question. In the present study, we examined whether multisensory integration processes play a compensatory role in normal aging. Magnetoencephalography recordings of semantically-related cross-modal and unimodal auditory and visual stimuli captured the spatiotemporal dynamics of multisensory responses in young and older adults. Whereas sensory-specific regions showed increased activity in response to cross-modal compared to unimodal stimuli 100 ms after stimulus onset in both age groups, posterior parietal and medial prefrontal regions responded preferentially to cross-modal stimuli between 150 and 300 ms in the older group only. Additionally, faster detection of cross-modal stimuli correlated with increased activity in inferior parietal and medial prefrontal regions 100 ms after stimulus onset in older compared to younger adults. Age-related differences in visual dominance were also observed with older adults exhibiting significantly larger multisensory facilitation effects relative to the auditory modality. Using structural equation modeling, we showed that age-related increases in parietal and medial prefrontal source activity predicted faster detection of cross-modal stimuli. Furthermore, the relationship between performance and source activity was mediated by age-related reductions in gray matter volume in those regions. Thus, we propose that multisensory integration processes change with age such that posterior parietal and medial prefrontal activity underlies the integrated response in older adults. AbstractObjects comprise of visual and auditory signatures that arrive through distinct sensory channels. Exposure to cross-modal events sets up expectations about what a given object most likely "sounds" like, and vice versa, thereby facilitating detection and recognition. Whereas episodic and working memory functions decline with age, the extent to which multisensory integration processes change with age remains an open question. In the present study, we examined whether multisensory integration processes play a compensatory role in normal aging. Magnetoencephalography recordings of semantically-related cross-modal and unimodal auditory and visual stimuli captured the spatiotemporal dynamics of multisensory responses in young and older adults. Whereas sensory-specific regions showed increased activity in response to cross-modal compared to unimodal stimuli 100ms after stimulus onset in both age groups, posterior parietal and medial prefrontal regions responded preferentially to cross-modal stimuli between 150 and 300ms in the older group only. Additionally, faster detection of cross-moda...

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Age‐related functional brain connectivity during audio–visual hand‐held tool recognition

Ren

Wang

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Brain and Behavior

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Introduction: Previous studies have confirmed increased functional connectivity in elderly adults during processing of simple audiovisual stimuli; however, it is unclear whether elderly adults maximize their performance by strengthening their functional brain connectivity when processing dynamic audiovisual hand-held tool stimuli. The present study aimed to explore this question using global functional connectivity. Methods: Twenty-one healthy elderly adults and 21 healthy younger adults were recruited to conduct a dynamic hand-held tool recognition task with high/low-intensity stimuli. Results: Elderly adults exhibited higher areas under the curve for both the high-intensity (3.5 versus. 2.7) and low-intensity (3.0 versus. 1.2) stimuli, indicating a higher audiovisual integration ability, but a delayed and widened audiovisual integration window for elderly adults for both the high-intensity (390-690 ms versus. 360-560 ms) and low-intensity (460-690 ms versus. 430-500 ms) stimuli. Additionally, elderly adults exhibited higher theta-band (all p < .01) but lower alpha-, beta-, and gamma-band functional connectivity (all p < .05) than younger adults under both the high-and low-intensity-stimulus conditions when processing audiovisual stimuli, except for gamma-band functional connectivity under the high-intensity-stimulus condition. Furthermore, higher theta-and alpha-band functional connectivity were observed for the audiovisual stimuli than for the auditory and visual stimuli and under the high-intensity-stimulus condition than under the low-intensity-stimulus condition. Conclusion: The higher theta-band functional connectivity in elderly adults was mainly due to higher attention allocation. The results further suggested that in the case of sensory processing, theta, alpha, beta, and gamma activity might participate in different stages of perception. K E Y W O R D S audiovisual integration, functional connectivity, hand-held tool recognition, phase lag index, stimulus intensity This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Assessing age-related multisensory enhancement with the time-window-of-integration model

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Examining the effect of age on auditory enhancement of visual-temporal attention

Visual dominance and multisensory integration changes with age

Age‐related functional brain connectivity during audio–visual hand‐held tool recognition

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