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Atkin, C. 
ORCID: 0000-0001-5086-1173, Stacey, J.E. ORCID: 0000-0003-4035-712X, Allen, H.A., Henshaw, H., Roberts, K.L. ORCID: 0000-0002-8735-2249 and Badham, S.P. ORCID: 0000-0002-6890-102X,
2024.
Older adults do not show enhanced benefits from multisensory information on speeded perceptual discrimination tasks.
Neurobiology of Aging, 142, pp. 65-72.
ISSN 0197-4580
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Abstract
Some research has shown that older adults benefit more from multisensory information than do young adults. However, more recent evidence has shown that the multisensory age benefit varies considerably across tasks. In the current study, older (65 – 80) and young (18 – 30) adults (N = 191) completed a speeded perceptual discrimination task either online or face-to-face to assess task response speed. We examined whether presenting stimuli in multiple sensory modalities (audio-visual) instead of one (audio-only or visual-only) benefits older adults more than young adults. Across all three experiments, a consistent speeding of response was found in the multisensory condition compared to the unisensory conditions for both young and older adults. Furthermore, race model analysis showed a significant multisensory benefit across a broad temporal interval. Critically, there were no significant differences between young and older adults. Taken together, these findings provide strong evidence in favour of a multisensory benefit that does not differ across age groups, contrasting with prior research.
| Item Type: | Journal article | ||||||||
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| Publication Title: | Neurobiology of Aging | ||||||||
| Creators: | Atkin, C., Stacey, J.E., Allen, H.A., Henshaw, H., Roberts, K.L. and Badham, S.P. | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||
| Date: | October 2024 | ||||||||
| Volume: | 142 | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0197-4580 | ||||||||
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| Rights: | © 2024 the authors. Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences | ||||||||
| Record created by: | Jonathan Gallacher | ||||||||
| Date Added: | 27 Aug 2024 09:18 | ||||||||
| Last Modified: | 27 Aug 2024 09:18 | ||||||||
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/52089 |
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