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The Visual Mechanism Underlying the Healthy Aging of Global Motion Perception in the Elderly——Based on the Perceptual Template Model

JIN Hua1, LIANG Ziping2, SHAN Jinlei3, ZHANG Yuping4, ZHU Ziliang5   

  1. 1. Key Research Base of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Ministry of Education, Academy of Psychology and Behavior, Tianjin Normal University, Tianjin 300387;
    2. Mental Health Education Center, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001;
    3. School of Electronic and Information Engineering, TianGong University, Tianjin 300387;
    4. Medicine School of Rehabilitation, Henan University of Chinese Medicine, Zhengzhou 450000;
    5. State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Published:2022-11-29

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Abstract: Studies showed that global motion perception (GMP) declines with aging. However, the visual mechanism underlying the healthy aging of GMP in the older adults is still unclear. The present study, for the first time, taking dynamic speed as external noise, addressed this issue. In this study, 34 younger and 34 older adults were recruited to perform a random dot kinematograms (RDK) task. Results showed that the older adults had significantly higher GMP threshold than the younger, indicating that there was significantly healthy aging in GMP. And the smaller difference between the two groups at moderate speed suggested that the aging effect of GMP was affected by speed. More importantly, Perceptual Template Model (PTM) fitting found that compared to the younger adults, older adults’ Aa >1, Af >1 and Aa >> Af, demonstrating that the decline in their GMP sensitivity might be due to the enhanced additive internal noise combined with the weakened ability to exclude external noise, especially the enhanced additive internal noise.

Key words: global motion perception, perceptual template model, aging, speed noise

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  • B844
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