The effect of unisensory and multisensory information on lexical decision and free recall in young and older adults.

ABSTRACT: Studies using simple low-level stimuli show that multisensory stimuli lead to greater improvements in processing speed for older adults than young adults. However, there is insufficient evidence to explain how these benefits influence performance for more complex processes such as judgement and memory tasks. This study examined how presenting stimuli in multiple sensory modalities (audio-visual) instead of one (audio-only or visual-only) may help older adults to improve their memory and cognitive processing compared to young adults. Young and older adults completed lexical decision (real word vs. pseudoword judgement) and word recall tasks, either independently, or in combination (dual-task), with and without perceptual noise. Older adults were better able to remember words when encoding i

SUBMITTER: Atkin C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10547689 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature