Age-Related Effects on Cross-Modal Duration Perception.

ABSTRACT: Reliable duration perception of external events is necessary to coordinate perception with action, precisely discriminate speech, and for other daily functions. Visual duration perception can be heavily influenced by concurrent auditory signals; however, age-related effects on this process have received minimal attention. In the present study, we examined the effect of aging on duration perception by quantifying (1) duration discrimination thresholds, (2) auditory temporal dominance, and (3) visual duration expansion/compression percepts induced by an accompanying auditory stimulus of longer/shorter duration. Duration discrimination thresholds were significantly greater for visual than auditory tasks in both age groups, however there was no effect of age. While the auditory modality retain

SUBMITTER: Scurry AN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7195395 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature