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Studies both on animal and human suggest temporal principle govern audiovisual integration greatly. However, its effect on audiovisual integration of elderly adults remains ambiguous. In this study, unimodal auditory (A), unimodal visual (V) or audiovisual (AV) stimulus with various temporal gap ( 0, 100 or −100 ms) were presented randomly on the left or right hemispace when the subjects attended...
The goal of this study was to investigate the effects of aging on pointing movements under restricted visual feedback of hand movement and target location. Fifteen young subjects and fifteen elderly subjects performed pointing movements under four restricted visual feedback conditions that included full visual feedback of hand movement and target location (FV), no visual feedback of hand movement...
In recent years, the trend toward the nuclear family and the phenomenon of under-population in rural areas has increased the number of elder people who live alone. Therefore, elder people have to drive themselves to go shopping or to a hospital. However, the elderly person also has a tendency to display reduced abilities of judgment and cognition and, in severe cases, displays dementia. In this paper,...
Certain learning the symptoms of earliest Alzheimer's disease (AD) involved learning, memory or planning problems. Currently, no medical tests are available to diagnose AD conclusively pre-mortem. However, a large number of Kungsholmen Project studies used cognitive tasks (i.e. visuospatial tasks, language tasks, etc.) attempted to find the preclinical cognitive marks of AD. These studies convincingly...
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