Simultaneity and Temporal Order Judgments Are Coded Differently and Change With Age: An Event-Related Potential Study.

ABSTRACT: Multisensory integration is required for a number of daily living tasks where the inability to accurately identify simultaneity and temporality of multisensory events results in errors in judgment leading to poor decision-making and dangerous behavior. Previously, our lab discovered that older adults exhibited impaired timing of audiovisual events, particularly when making temporal order judgments (TOJs). Simultaneity judgments (SJs), however, were preserved across the lifespan. Here, we investigate the difference between the TOJ and SJ tasks in younger and older adults to assess neural processing differences between these two tasks and across the lifespan. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were studied to determine between-task and between-age differences. Results revealed task specific dif

SUBMITTER: Basharat A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5932149 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature