Audio-Visual Training in Older Adults: 2-Interval-Forced Choice Task Improves Performance.

ABSTRACT: A growing interest in ameliorating multisensory perception deficits in older adults arises from recent evidence showing that impaired multisensory processing, particularly in the temporal domain, may be associated with cognitive and functional impairments. Perceptual training has proved successful in improving multisensory temporal processing in young adults, but few studies have investigated this training approach in older adults. In the present study we used a simultaneity (or synchronicity) judgement task with feedback, to train the audio-visual abilities of community-dwelling, cognitively healthy older adults. We recruited 23 older adults (M = 74.17, SD = 6.23) and a group of 20 young adults (M = 24.20, SD = 4.23) who served as a comparison. Participants wer

SUBMITTER: O'Brien JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7693639 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature