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Aging of Low and High Level Vision: From Chromatic and Achromatic Contrast Sensitivity to Local and 3D Object Motion Perception

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 divided into five distinct age groups, [20;30[, [30;40[, [40;50[, [50;60[and [60;[. We applied a broad range of p...

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Autores principales: Mateus, Catarina, Lemos, Raquel, Silva, Maria Fátima, Reis, Aldina, Fonseca, Pedro, Oliveiros, Bárbara, Castelo-Branco, Miguel
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3561289/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23383163
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0055348
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author Mateus, Catarina
Lemos, Raquel
Silva, Maria Fátima
Reis, Aldina
Fonseca, Pedro
Oliveiros, Bárbara
Castelo-Branco, Miguel
author_facet Mateus, Catarina
Lemos, Raquel
Silva, Maria Fátima
Reis, Aldina
Fonseca, Pedro
Oliveiros, Bárbara
Castelo-Branco, Miguel
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description 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 divided into five distinct age groups, [20;30[, [30;40[, [40;50[, [50;60[and [60;[. We applied a broad range of psychophysical tests, testing distinct levels of the visual hierarchy, from local processing to global integration, using simple gratings (spatial contrast sensitivity -CS- using high temporal/low spatial frequency or intermediate spatial frequency static gratings), color CS using Landolt patches, moving dot stimuli (Local Speed Discrimination) and dot patterns defining 3D objects (3D Structure from Motion, 3D SFM). Aging data were fitted with linear or quadratic regression models, using the adjusted coefficient of determination (R(2) (a)) to quantify the effect of aging. A significant effect of age was found on all visual channels tested, except for the red-green chromatic channel. The high temporal low spatial frequency contrast sensitivity channel showed a mean sensitivity loss of 0.75 dB per decade (R(2) (a) = 0.17, p<0.001), while the lower intermediate spatial frequency channel showed a more pronounced decrease, around 2.35 dB (R(2) (a) = 0.55, p<0.001). Concerning low-level motion perception, speed discrimination decreased 2.71°/s (R(2) (a) = 0.18, p<0.001) and 3.15°/s (R(2) (a) = 0.13, p<0.001) only for short presentations for horizontal and oblique meridians, respectively. The 3D SFM task, requiring high-level integration across dorsal and ventral streams, showed the strongest (quadratic) decrease of motion coherence perception with age, especially when the task was temporally constrained (R(2) (a) = 0.54, p<0.001). These findings show that visual channels are influenced by aging into different extent, with time presenting a critical role, and high-level dorso-ventral dominance of deterioration, which accelerates with aging, in contrast to the other channels that show a linear pattern of deterioration.
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spelling pubmed-35612892013-02-04 Aging of Low and High Level Vision: From Chromatic and Achromatic Contrast Sensitivity to Local and 3D Object Motion Perception Mateus, Catarina Lemos, Raquel Silva, Maria Fátima Reis, Aldina Fonseca, Pedro Oliveiros, Bárbara Castelo-Branco, Miguel PLoS One Research Article 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 divided into five distinct age groups, [20;30[, [30;40[, [40;50[, [50;60[and [60;[. We applied a broad range of psychophysical tests, testing distinct levels of the visual hierarchy, from local processing to global integration, using simple gratings (spatial contrast sensitivity -CS- using high temporal/low spatial frequency or intermediate spatial frequency static gratings), color CS using Landolt patches, moving dot stimuli (Local Speed Discrimination) and dot patterns defining 3D objects (3D Structure from Motion, 3D SFM). Aging data were fitted with linear or quadratic regression models, using the adjusted coefficient of determination (R(2) (a)) to quantify the effect of aging. A significant effect of age was found on all visual channels tested, except for the red-green chromatic channel. The high temporal low spatial frequency contrast sensitivity channel showed a mean sensitivity loss of 0.75 dB per decade (R(2) (a) = 0.17, p<0.001), while the lower intermediate spatial frequency channel showed a more pronounced decrease, around 2.35 dB (R(2) (a) = 0.55, p<0.001). Concerning low-level motion perception, speed discrimination decreased 2.71°/s (R(2) (a) = 0.18, p<0.001) and 3.15°/s (R(2) (a) = 0.13, p<0.001) only for short presentations for horizontal and oblique meridians, respectively. The 3D SFM task, requiring high-level integration across dorsal and ventral streams, showed the strongest (quadratic) decrease of motion coherence perception with age, especially when the task was temporally constrained (R(2) (a) = 0.54, p<0.001). These findings show that visual channels are influenced by aging into different extent, with time presenting a critical role, and high-level dorso-ventral dominance of deterioration, which accelerates with aging, in contrast to the other channels that show a linear pattern of deterioration. Public Library of Science 2013-01-31 /pmc/articles/PMC3561289/ /pubmed/23383163 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0055348 Text en © 2013 Mateus et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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Mateus, Catarina
Lemos, Raquel
Silva, Maria Fátima
Reis, Aldina
Fonseca, Pedro
Oliveiros, Bárbara
Castelo-Branco, Miguel
Aging of Low and High Level Vision: From Chromatic and Achromatic Contrast Sensitivity to Local and 3D Object Motion Perception
title Aging of Low and High Level Vision: From Chromatic and Achromatic Contrast Sensitivity to Local and 3D Object Motion Perception
title_full Aging of Low and High Level Vision: From Chromatic and Achromatic Contrast Sensitivity to Local and 3D Object Motion Perception
title_fullStr Aging of Low and High Level Vision: From Chromatic and Achromatic Contrast Sensitivity to Local and 3D Object Motion Perception
title_full_unstemmed Aging of Low and High Level Vision: From Chromatic and Achromatic Contrast Sensitivity to Local and 3D Object Motion Perception
title_short Aging of Low and High Level Vision: From Chromatic and Achromatic Contrast Sensitivity to Local and 3D Object Motion Perception
title_sort aging of low and high level vision: from chromatic and achromatic contrast sensitivity to local and 3d object motion perception
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3561289/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23383163
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0055348
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