The optomotor response of aging zebrafish reveals a complex relationship between visual motion characteristics and cholinergic system

A Karaduman, ET Karoglu-Eravsar, U Kaya, A Aydin… - Neurobiology of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Understanding the principles underlying age-related changes in motion perception is
paramount for improving the quality of life and health of older adults. However, the …

[HTML][HTML] Neural changes related to motion processing in healthy aging

SC Biehl, M Andersen, GD Waiter, KS Pilz - Neurobiology of aging, 2017 - Elsevier
Behavioral studies have found a striking decline in the processing of low-level motion in
healthy aging whereas the processing of more relevant and familiar biological motion is …

[HTML][HTML] Aging of low and high level vision: from chromatic and achromatic contrast sensitivity to local and 3D object motion perception

C Mateus, R Lemos, MF Silva, A Reis, P Fonseca… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
The influence of normal aging in early, intermediate and high-level visual processing is still
poorly understood. We have addressed this important issue in a large cohort of 653 subjects …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial characteristics of motion-sensitive mechanisms change with age and stimulus spatial frequency

LR Betts, AB Sekuler, PJ Bennett - Vision research, 2012 - Elsevier
Contrast-dependent interactions between classical (CRF) and non-classical regions (nCRF)
of visual neuron receptive fields are well documented in primate visual cortex. Physiological …

Functional degradation of the primary visual cortex during early senescence in rhesus monkeys

Y Fu, S Yu, Y Ma, Y Wang, Y Zhou - Cerebral cortex, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Visual function in humans degrades during the early stage of senescence beginning from
middle 50s to 60s. To identify its underlying neural mechanisms, we investigated the aging …

[HTML][HTML] A single mode of population covariation associates brain networks structure and behavior and predicts individual subjects' age

BC McPherson, F Pestilli - Communications Biology, 2021 - nature.com
Multiple human behaviors improve early in life, peaking in young adulthood, and declining
thereafter. Several properties of brain structure and function progress similarly across the …

Age effects on the perception of motion illusions

J Billino, K Hamburger, KR Gegenfurtner - Perception, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Anomalous motion illusions represent a popular class of illusions and several studies have
made an effort to explain their perception. However, understanding is still inconsistent. Age …

[HTML][HTML] Aging and the perception of tactile speed

JF Norman, JR Eaton, MKL Gunter, M Baig - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Eighteen younger and older adults (mean ages were 20.4 and 72.8 years, respectively)
participated in a tactile speed matching task. On any given trial, the participants felt the …

The accuracy of drivers' judgments of the effects of headlight glare on their own visual acuity

AAS Sewall, SAW Borzendowski, RA Tyrrell - Perception, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Drivers' judgments of the magnitude of disability glare caused by high-beam headlights may
not match actual declines in visual performance. This study investigated younger and older …

Crowded environments reduce spatial memory in older but not younger adults

NA Merriman, J Ondřej, A Rybicki, E Roudaia… - Psychological …, 2018 - Springer
Previous studies have reported an age-related decline in spatial abilities. However, little is
known about whether the presence of other, task-irrelevant stimuli during learning further …