ArticleCortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior2021
Sensory- and memory-related drivers for altered ventriloquism effects and aftereffects in older adults.
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- Bayesian causal inference reveals declined proprioception, increased integration bias underlie older adults' stronger visual bias in hand position perception.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Sound-induced visual motion perception in older adults: aging enhances audiovisual motion integration.Experimental brain research · 2026Article
- Perceived Multisensory Common Cause Relations Shape the Ventriloquism Effect but Only Marginally the Trial-Wise Aftereffect.The European journal of neuroscience · 2025Article
- A drift diffusion model analysis of age-related impact on multisensory decision-making processes.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Older adults preserve audiovisual integration through enhanced cortical activations, not by recruiting new regions.PLoS biology · 2024Article
- Multisensory Integration and Causal Inference in Typical and Atypical Populations.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2024Review
- Multisensory integration in the mammalian brain: diversity and flexibility in health and disease.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
- Age-Related Changes to Multisensory Integration and Audiovisual Speech Perception.Brain sciences · 2023Review
- Cumulative multisensory discrepancies shape the ventriloquism aftereffect but not the ventriloquism bias.PloS one · 2023Article
- Audiovisual spatial recalibration but not integration is shaped by early sensory experience.iScience · 2022Article
- Robust spatial ventriloquism effect and trial-by-trial aftereffect under memory interference.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
The manner in which humans exploit multisensory information for subsequent decisions changes with age. Multiple causes for such age-effects are being discussed, including a reduced precision in peripheral sensory representations, changes in cognitive inference about causal relations between sensory cues, and a decline in memory contributing to altered sequential patterns of multisensory behaviour. To dissociate these putative contributions, we investigated how healthy young and older adults integrate audio-visual spatial information within trials (the ventriloquism effect) and between trials (the ventriloquism aftereffect). With both a model-free and (Bayesian) model-based analyses we found that both biases differed between groups. Our results attribute the age-change in the ventriloquism bias to a decline in spatial hearing rather than a change in cognitive processes. This decline in peripheral function, combined with a more prominent influence from preceding responses rather than preceding stimuli in the elderly, can also explain the observed age-effect in the ventriloquism aftereffect. Our results suggest a transition from a sensory-to a behavior-driven influence of past multisensory experience on perceptual decisions with age, due to reduced sensory precision and change in memory capacity.
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