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Self-Motion Perception and Multisensory Integration in Older Adults.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Self-Motion Perception and Multisensory Integration in Older Adults./
Author:	Gabriel, Grace A.
Description:	1 online resource (221 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-01, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-01B.
Subject:	Cognitive psychology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=29067185click for full text (PQDT)
ISBN:	9798834061892

Self-Motion Perception and Multisensory Integration in Older Adults.
Gabriel, Grace A.

Self-Motion Perception and Multisensory Integration in Older Adults. - 1 online resource (221 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-01, Section: B.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Toronto (Canada), 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

Aging is associated with changes in how our brains combine sensory information when perceiving self-motion. Despite age-related changes in sensory integration, little is known about whether multisensory self-motion perception changes in older adults (OAs). Understanding such changes is important since OAs are particularly vulnerable to errors during self-motion, which can increase their risk of injury (e.g., when walking, driving). Vestibular cues are very important for self-motion perception, yet how vestibular perception changes with older age and age-related sensory declines is understudied. Therefore, in Chapter 2, I explored whether vestibular perceptual thresholds differ between healthy OAs (i.e., no sensory/cognitive decline) and younger adults (YAs), for two different motion types (heave and pitch). Thresholds were measured using two different perceptual tasks: 1) detection task, and 2) discrimination task. Postural stability was also assessed. OAs demonstrated higher (worse) detection thresholds than YAs for both motions. Larger postural sway in OAs was also associated with higher vestibular thresholds.Age-related hearing loss (ARHL) is highly prevalent in OAs and is associated with increased falls risk. Therefore, using the same paradigm as Chapter 2, in Chapter 3 I evaluated whether higher vestibular perceptual thresholds are observed in individuals with ARHL than those with normal hearing. Here, OAs with ARHL showed higher pitch discrimination thresholds than those with normal hearing. Hearing loss in the low-frequency ranges also predicted worse pitch detection. Given that older age (Chapter 2) and ARHL (Chapter 3) were shown to predict poorer self-motion perception, in Chapter 4 I evaluated whether self-motion perception could be improved with training. Specifically, I trained OAs and YAs on a visual-vestibular heading-discrimination task. While OAs showed poorer overall precision than YAs, both groups showed improved precision post-training for the sensory condition with the lowest pre-training precision (visual-only). A sub-group of OAs who initially could not perform the visual heading task demonstrated greatly improved performance post-training. Collectively, I show that while healthy aging and common age-related sensory declines may be associated with poorer self-motion perception, training can potentially be used to improve these abilities. Together, these results may have implications for informing fall/collision prevention strategies.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798834061892Subjects--Topical Terms:

523881
Cognitive psychology.
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Electronic books.

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