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Attenuated audiovisual integration in middle-aged adults in a discrimination task
Authors:Weiping Yang  Yanna Ren
Institution:1.Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education,Hubei University,Wuhan City,China;2.Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Medical Humanities College,Guiyang University of Traditional Chinese Medicine,Guiyang,China;3.Cognitive Neuroscience Laboratory, Graduate School of Natural Science and Technology,Okayama University,Okayama,Japan
Abstract:Numerous studies have focused on the diversity of audiovisual integration between younger and older adults. However, consecutive trends in audiovisual integration throughout life are still unclear. In the present study, to clarify audiovisual integration characteristics in middle-aged adults, we instructed younger and middle-aged adults to conduct an auditory/visual stimuli discrimination experiment. Randomized streams of unimodal auditory (A), unimodal visual (V) or audiovisual stimuli were presented on the left or right hemispace of the central fixation point, and subjects were instructed to respond to the target stimuli rapidly and accurately. Our results demonstrated that the responses of middle-aged adults to all unimodal and bimodal stimuli were significantly slower than those of younger adults (p < 0.05). Audiovisual integration was markedly delayed (onset time 360 ms) and weaker (peak 3.97%) in middle-aged adults than in younger adults (onset time 260 ms, peak 11.86%). The results suggested that audiovisual integration was attenuated in middle-aged adults and further confirmed age-related decline in information processing.
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