Effects of Aging in Multisensory Integration: A Systematic Review

Dieuleveult, Alix Lucile de; Siemonsma, Petra C.; Erp, J.B.F. van; Brouwer, A.

doi:10.3389/fnagi.2017.00080

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“…Older adults appear to benefit more from multisensory enrichment in their environment than younger adults (Berard et al, 2012;de Dieuleveult et al, 2017;Deshpande and Zhang, 2014;Diederich et al, 2008;Townsend et al, 2006). However, there is also some evidence that older adults have trouble ignoring clearly irrelevant or unreliable sensory information; they use all environmental information even when it is disrupted or non-informative (distractors) (Berard et al, 2012;de Dieuleveult et al, 2017;Eikema et al, 2014;McGovern et al, 2014;Teasdale et al, 1991). In general, when performing various tasks, older adults tend to take more time, to be less accurate, and to be more variable than younger adults (de Dieuleveult et al, 2017;DeLoss et al, 2013;Guerreiro et al, 2014Guerreiro et al, , 2015Hugenschmidt et al, 2009).…”

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“…It has been shown that aging influences sensory integration (for a review, see de Dieuleveult et al, 2017). Older adults appear to benefit more from multisensory enrichment in their environment than younger adults (Berard et al, 2012;de Dieuleveult et al, 2017;Deshpande and Zhang, 2014;Diederich et al, 2008;Townsend et al, 2006). However, there is also some evidence that older adults have trouble ignoring clearly irrelevant or unreliable sensory information; they use all environmental information even when it is disrupted or non-informative (distractors) (Berard et al, 2012;de Dieuleveult et al, 2017;Eikema et al, 2014;McGovern et al, 2014;Teasdale et al, 1991).…”

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“…bathing, dressing) (Katz, 1963) and the instrumental activities of daily living (e.g., using a phone, shopping) (Lawton and Brody, 1969). It has been shown that aging influences sensory integration (for a review, see de Dieuleveult et al, 2017). Older adults appear to benefit more from multisensory enrichment in their environment than younger adults (Berard et al, 2012;de Dieuleveult et al, 2017;Deshpande and Zhang, 2014;Diederich et al, 2008;Townsend et al, 2006).…”

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“…However, there is also some evidence that older adults have trouble ignoring clearly irrelevant or unreliable sensory information; they use all environmental information even when it is disrupted or non-informative (distractors) (Berard et al, 2012;de Dieuleveult et al, 2017;Eikema et al, 2014;McGovern et al, 2014;Teasdale et al, 1991). In general, when performing various tasks, older adults tend to take more time, to be less accurate, and to be more variable than younger adults (de Dieuleveult et al, 2017;DeLoss et al, 2013;Guerreiro et al, 2014Guerreiro et al, , 2015Hugenschmidt et al, 2009). The addition of a secondary task tends to decrease task performance more strongly in older adults than in younger adults (Bisson et al, 2014;de Dieuleveult et al, 2017;Mahboobin et al, 2007;Redfern et al, 2001Redfern et al, , 2009.…”

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“…In general, when performing various tasks, older adults tend to take more time, to be less accurate, and to be more variable than younger adults (de Dieuleveult et al, 2017;DeLoss et al, 2013;Guerreiro et al, 2014Guerreiro et al, , 2015Hugenschmidt et al, 2009). The addition of a secondary task tends to decrease task performance more strongly in older adults than in younger adults (Bisson et al, 2014;de Dieuleveult et al, 2017;Mahboobin et al, 2007;Redfern et al, 2001Redfern et al, , 2009. It is well known that the age-related deterioration of, for instance, vision (Kavcic et al, 2011;Owsley, 2011), joint mobility (Yeh et al, 2015), muscle force (Cruz-Jentoft et al, 2010), and balance (Teasdale et al, 1991) all decrease performance of the activities of daily living.…”

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Aging and Sensitivity to Illusory Target Motion With or Without Secondary Tasks

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Older individuals seem to find it more difficult to ignore inaccurate sensory cues than younger individuals. We examined whether this could be quantified using an interception task. Twenty healthy young adults (age 18-34) and twenty-four healthy older adults (age 60-82) were asked to tap on discs that were moving downwards on a screen with their finger. Moving the background to the left made the discs appear to move more to the right. Moving the background to the right made them appear to move more to the left. The discs disappeared before the finger reached the screen, so participants had to anticipate how the target would continue to move. We examined how misjudging the disc's motion when the background moves influenced tapping. Participants received veridical feedback about their performance, so their sensitivity to the illusory motion indicates to what extent they could ignore the task-irrelevant visual information. We expected older adults to be more sensitive to the illusion than younger adults. To investigate whether sensorimotor or cognitive load would increase this sensitivity, we also asked participants to do the task while standing on foam or counting tones. Background motion influenced older adults more than younger adults. The secondary tasks did not increase the background's influence. Older adults might be more sensitive to the moving background because they find it more difficult to ignore irrelevant sensory information in general, but they may rely more on vision because they have less reliable proprioceptive and vestibular information.

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Sensory manipulation results in increased dorsolateral prefrontal cortex activation during static postural balance in sedentary older adults: An fNIRS study

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BackgroundThe dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) is involved with allocating attentional resources to maintain postural control. However, it is unknown whether age‐related structural and functional declines of the DLPFC may impair postural control during sensory manipulation. In this study, we aim to understand the effects of aging on the DLPFC when sensory cues were removed or presented inaccurately (i.e., increased sensory complexity) during the sensory orientation test (SOT).MethodsTwenty young (18–25 years) and 18 older (66–73 years) healthy adults were recruited to undertake the SOT, which consisted of six conditions aimed at removing or disrupting the visual, vestibular, and proprioceptive senses. During these six SOT conditions, functional near‐infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), consisting of eight transmitter‐receiver optode pairs (four channels over the left and right DLPFC), was used to measure hemodynamic responses (i.e., changes in oxy‐ [O2Hb] and deoxyhemoglobin [HHb]) from the bilateral DLPFC.ResultsOur results show an increase in bilateral DLPFC activation (i.e., increase in O2Hb and concomitant smaller decrease in HHb) with increasing sensory complexity in both young and older adults. The increase in left and right DLPFC activation during more complex sensory conditions was greater, which was concomitant with reduced balance performance in older adults compared to younger adults. Furthermore, we observed a right lateralized DLPFC activation in younger adults. Finally, a significant positive association was observed between balance performance and increased bilateral DLPFC activation particularly for SOT conditions with greater sensory disruptions.ConclusionOur findings highlight the involvement of the DLPFC in maintaining postural control, particularly during complex sensory tasks, and provide direct evidence for the role of the DLPFC during postural control of a clinically relevant measure of balance.

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Less is more: Removing a modality of an expected olfactory‐visual stimulation enhances brain activation

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In recent years, multisensory integration of visual and olfactory stimuli has extensively been explored resulting in the identification of responsible brain areas. As the experimental designs of previous research often include alternating presentations of unimodal and bimodal stimuli, the conditions cannot be regarded as completely independent. This could lead to effects of an expected but surprisingly missing sensory modality. In our experiment, we used a common functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) study design with alternating strong unimodal and bimodal olfactory‐visual food stimuli, in addition to a slight overhang of the bimodal stimuli in an effort to examine the effects of removing a visual or olfactory congruent stimulus for older people (41–83 years). Our results suggest that the processing of olfactory and visual stimuli stays intact over a wide age‐range and that the utilization of strong stimuli does not lead to superadditive multisensory integration in accordance with the principle of inverse effectiveness. However, our results demonstrate that the removal of a stimulus modality leads to an activation of additional brain areas. For example, when the visual stimulus modality is missing, the right posterior superior temporal gyrus shows higher activation, whereas the removal of the olfactory stimulus modality leads to higher activation in the amygdala/hippocampus and the postcentral gyrus. These brain areas are related to attention, memory, and the search of the missing stimulus. Consequently, careful attention must be paid to the design of a valid, multimodal sensory experiment while also controlling for cognitive expectancy effects that might confound multimodal results.

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Effects of Aging in Multisensory Integration: A Systematic Review

Cited by 143 publications

References 102 publications

Aging and Sensitivity to Illusory Target Motion With or Without Secondary Tasks

Aging and Sensitivity to Illusory Target Motion With or Without Secondary Tasks

Sensory manipulation results in increased dorsolateral prefrontal cortex activation during static postural balance in sedentary older adults: An fNIRS study

Less is more: Removing a modality of an expected olfactory‐visual stimulation enhances brain activation

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