Inter- and intra- individual variability in audiovisual multisensory processes in healthy ageing
Naomi K. Middelmann, Lauriane Ecabert, Eduardo Villar Ortega, Alessandra Griffa, Andrea Brioschi-Guevara, Gilles Allali, James E. Bartlett, Micah M. Murray · 2026
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Description
Naomi Middelmann and co-authors test how older adults react to sounds, sights, and both at once. Most past work studied one sense alone, and often averaged reaction times, which hides how shaky one person's responses are. That shakiness can be an early sign of decline.
Fifty-five healthy people aged sixty to eighty-four did a simple spot-the-signal task. Responses to paired sound and sight signals were faster and steadier than to either sense alone, and the gain beat what chance alone would give. Sounds alone drew the slowest, shakiest replies, and pitch mattered too. The authors back such simple tasks as a cheap way to screen aging senses.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Naomi K. Middelmann, Lauriane Ecabert, Eduardo Villar Ortega, Alessandra Griffa, Andrea Brioschi-Guevara, Gilles Allali, James E. Bartlett, Micah M. Murray |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 59 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |