Multisensory integration compensates loss of sensitivity of visual temporal order in the elderly

Boer-Schellekens, Liselotte de; Vroomen, Jean

doi:10.1007/s00221-013-3736-5

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“…The effects of age on audiovisual temporal order judgment were not clear. Some authors found a decline of sensitivity in this task from 50 years of age (de Boer-Schellekens and Vroomen, 2013), others found no age-related differences in this task (Fiacconi et al, 2013) and other authors found increased age-related differences (Setti et al, 2011b). Furthermore, de Boer-Schellekens and Vroomen (2013) showed that additional noise compensated the loss of sensitivity that they found, particularly in OA.…”

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“…Other authors investigated reaction times during unimodal or bimodal localization tasks (Hugenschmidt et al, 2009b; Campbell et al, 2010; Stephen et al, 2010; Dobreva et al, 2012; Wu et al, 2012) with spatial cueing (Guerreiro et al, 2012) or using peripheral vision (Cui et al, 2010; Dobreva et al, 2012) or the ability to remember or localize a stimulus in one modality while ignoring another modality (Diederich et al, 2008; Guerreiro et al, 2014, 2015). Other authors used judgment tasks; audiovisual temporal order judgment task (Setti et al, 2011b; de Boer-Schellekens and Vroomen, 2013; Fiacconi et al, 2013), audiovisual asynchrony judgment (Chan et al, 2014a) or audiovisual n -back task (Guerreiro and Van Gerven, 2011; Guerreiro et al, 2013). Finally, in some articles, participants had to perform a sound-induced flash illusion task (Setti et al, 2011a; DeLoss et al, 2013; McGovern et al, 2014).…”

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“…In other words: OA used all audiovisual information present in the environment (Townsend et al, 2006; Peiffer et al, 2007; Diederich et al, 2008; Hugenschmidt et al, 2009b; Stephen et al, 2010; Guerreiro et al, 2012, 2014, 2015; Wu et al, 2012; DeLoss et al, 2013). Both groups showed better performance in multisensory tasks compared to unimodal tasks but OA seemed to benefit more from enriched multisensory information than YA (Diederich et al, 2008; Hugenschmidt et al, 2009b; de Boer-Schellekens and Vroomen, 2013; DeLoss et al, 2013; Guerreiro et al, 2014, 2015). When performing detection tasks, OA showed similar responses to MSI as YA (Townsend et al, 2006; Hugenschmidt et al, 2009a,b; Guerreiro et al, 2012, 2014, 2015; Fiacconi et al, 2013) or even faster responses to multisensory information compared to YA (Peiffer et al, 2007).…”

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“…OA benefit more from multisensory enrichment in the environment. They use all information available to them to perform a task and benefit more from bimodal stimuli compared to unimodal stimuli (Furman et al, 2003; Townsend et al, 2006; Deshpande and Patla, 2007; Peiffer et al, 2007; Diederich et al, 2008; Hugenschmidt et al, 2009b; Redfern et al, 2009; Stephen et al, 2010; Elliott et al, 2011; Mahoney et al, 2011, 2012; Berard et al, 2012; Guerreiro et al, 2012, 2014, 2015; Wu et al, 2012; de Boer-Schellekens and Vroomen, 2013; DeLoss et al, 2013; Bates and Wolbers, 2014; Deshpande and Zhang, 2014; Eikema et al, 2014). They also demonstrate a broader time window of integration compared to YA (Peiffer et al, 2007; Diederich et al, 2008; Wu et al, 2012), meaning that the time period used by OA to integrate information from different senses as a unique multisensory percept is larger compared to YA.…”

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Effects of Aging in Multisensory Integration: A Systematic Review

Dieuleveult

Siemonsma

Erp

et al. 2017

Front. Aging Neurosci.

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Multisensory integration (MSI) is the integration by the brain of environmental information acquired through more than one sense. Accurate MSI has been shown to be a key component of successful aging and to be crucial for processes underlying activities of daily living (ADLs). Problems in MSI could prevent older adults (OA) to age in place and live independently. However, there is a need to know how to assess changes in MSI in individuals. This systematic review provides an overview of tests assessing the effect of age on MSI in the healthy elderly population (aged 60 years and older). A literature search was done in Scopus. Articles from the earliest records available to January 20, 2016, were eligible for inclusion if assessing effects of aging on MSI in the healthy elderly population compared to younger adults (YA). These articles were rated for risk of bias with the Newcastle-Ottawa quality assessment. Out of 307 identified research articles, 49 articles were included for final review, describing 69 tests. The review indicated that OA maximize the use of multiple sources of information in comparison to YA (20 studies). In tasks that require more cognitive function, or when participants need to adapt rapidly to a situation, or when a dual task is added to the experiment, OA have problems selecting and integrating information properly as compared to YA (19 studies). Additionally, irrelevant or wrong information (i.e., distractors) has a greater impact on OA than on YA (21 studies). OA failing to weigh sensory information properly, has not been described in previous reviews. Anatomical changes (i.e., reduction of brain volume and differences of brain areas’ recruitment) and information processing changes (i.e., general cognitive slowing, inverse effectiveness, larger time window of integration, deficits in attentional control and increased noise at baseline) can only partly explain the differences between OA and YA regarding MSI. Since we have an interest in successful aging and early detection of MSI issues in the elderly population, the identified tests form a good starting point to develop a clinically useful toolkit to assess MSI in healthy OA.

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confidence: 99%

Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

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Effects of Aging in Multisensory Integration: A Systematic Review

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Erp

et al. 2017

Front. Aging Neurosci.

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“…This is because older adults are more likely to integrate multisensory stimuli compared to young adults 6 . This was originally thought of as beneficial, as it effectively compensated for the "loss of sensitivity" in unisensory acuity 7 .…”

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Predictive coding over the lifespan: Increased reliance on perceptual priors in older adults – a magnetoencephalography and dynamic causal modelling study

Chan

Wibral

Stawowsky

et al. 2017

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Aging is accompanied by unisensory decline; but to compensate for this, two complementary strategies are potentially relied upon increasingly: first, older adults integrate more information from different sensory organs. Second, according to predictive coding (PC) we form 'templates' (internal models or 'priors') of the environment through our experiences. It is through increased life experience that older adults may rely more on these templates compared to younger adults.Multisensory integration and predictive coding would be effective strategies for the perception of near-threshold stimuli, but they come at the cost of integrating irrelevant information. Their role can be studied in multisensory illusions because these require the integration of different sensory information, as well as an internal model of the world that can take precedence over sensory input.Here, we elicited a classic multisensory illusion, the sound-induced flash illusion, in younger (mean: 27 yrs) and older (mean: 67 yrs) adult participants while recording the magnetoencephalogram.Older adults perceived more illusions than younger adults. Older adults had increased pre-stimulus beta(β)-band activity compared to younger adults as predicted by microcircuit theories of predictive coding, which suggest priors and predictions are linked to β-band activity. In line with our hypothesis, transfer entropy analysis and dynamic causal models of pre-stimulus MEG data revealed a stronger illusion-related modulation of cross-modal connectivity from auditory to visual cortices in older compared to younger adults. We interpret this as the neural correlate of increased reliance on a cross-modal predictive template in older adults that is leading to the illusory percept.

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When the Perception of a Synchronous World Is—Mostly—Just an Illusion

Paraskevoudi

Vatakis

2019

The Illusions of Time

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Multisensory integration compensates loss of sensitivity of visual temporal order in the elderly

Cited by 35 publications

References 39 publications

Effects of Aging in Multisensory Integration: A Systematic Review

Effects of Aging in Multisensory Integration: A Systematic Review

Predictive coding over the lifespan: Increased reliance on perceptual priors in older adults – a magnetoencephalography and dynamic causal modelling study

When the Perception of a Synchronous World Is—Mostly—Just an Illusion

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