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Age-related decrease in motor contribution to multisensory reaction times in primary school children

Traditional measurement of multisensory facilitation in tasks such as speeded motor reaction tasks (MRT) consistently show age-related improvement during early childhood. However, the extent to which motor function increases with age and hence contribute to multisensory motor reaction times in young...

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Autores principales: Alhamdan, Areej A., Murphy, Melanie J., Crewther, Sheila G.
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9493199/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36158624
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.967081
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description Traditional measurement of multisensory facilitation in tasks such as speeded motor reaction tasks (MRT) consistently show age-related improvement during early childhood. However, the extent to which motor function increases with age and hence contribute to multisensory motor reaction times in young children has seldom been examined. Thus, we aimed to investigate the contribution of motor development to measures of multisensory (auditory, visual, and audiovisual) and visuomotor processing tasks in three young school age groups of children (n = 69) aged (5−6, n = 21; 7−8, n = 25.; 9−10 n = 18 years). We also aimed to determine whether age-related sensory threshold times for purely visual inspection time (IT) tasks improved significantly with age. Bayesian results showed decisive evidence for age-group differences in multisensory MRT and visuo-motor processing tasks, though the evidence showed that threshold time for visual identification IT performance was only slower in the youngest age group children (5−6) compared to older groups. Bayesian correlations between performance on the multisensory MRT and visuo-motor processing tasks indicated moderate to decisive evidence in favor of the alternative hypothesis (BF(10) = 4.71 to 91.346), though not with the threshold IT (BF(10) < 1.35). This suggests that visual sensory system development in children older than 6 years makes a less significant contribution to the measure of multisensory facilitation, compared to motor development. In addition to this main finding, multisensory facilitation of MRT within race-model predictions was only found in the oldest group of children (9−10), supporting previous suggestions that multisensory integration is likely to continue into late childhood/early adolescence at least.
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spelling pubmed-94931992022-09-23 Age-related decrease in motor contribution to multisensory reaction times in primary school children Alhamdan, Areej A. Murphy, Melanie J. Crewther, Sheila G. Front Hum Neurosci Human Neuroscience Traditional measurement of multisensory facilitation in tasks such as speeded motor reaction tasks (MRT) consistently show age-related improvement during early childhood. However, the extent to which motor function increases with age and hence contribute to multisensory motor reaction times in young children has seldom been examined. Thus, we aimed to investigate the contribution of motor development to measures of multisensory (auditory, visual, and audiovisual) and visuomotor processing tasks in three young school age groups of children (n = 69) aged (5−6, n = 21; 7−8, n = 25.; 9−10 n = 18 years). We also aimed to determine whether age-related sensory threshold times for purely visual inspection time (IT) tasks improved significantly with age. Bayesian results showed decisive evidence for age-group differences in multisensory MRT and visuo-motor processing tasks, though the evidence showed that threshold time for visual identification IT performance was only slower in the youngest age group children (5−6) compared to older groups. Bayesian correlations between performance on the multisensory MRT and visuo-motor processing tasks indicated moderate to decisive evidence in favor of the alternative hypothesis (BF(10) = 4.71 to 91.346), though not with the threshold IT (BF(10) < 1.35). This suggests that visual sensory system development in children older than 6 years makes a less significant contribution to the measure of multisensory facilitation, compared to motor development. In addition to this main finding, multisensory facilitation of MRT within race-model predictions was only found in the oldest group of children (9−10), supporting previous suggestions that multisensory integration is likely to continue into late childhood/early adolescence at least. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9493199/ /pubmed/36158624 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.967081 Text en Copyright © 2022 Alhamdan, Murphy and Crewther. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Age-related decrease in motor contribution to multisensory reaction times in primary school children
title Age-related decrease in motor contribution to multisensory reaction times in primary school children
title_full Age-related decrease in motor contribution to multisensory reaction times in primary school children
title_fullStr Age-related decrease in motor contribution to multisensory reaction times in primary school children
title_full_unstemmed Age-related decrease in motor contribution to multisensory reaction times in primary school children
title_short Age-related decrease in motor contribution to multisensory reaction times in primary school children
title_sort age-related decrease in motor contribution to multisensory reaction times in primary school children
topic Human Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9493199/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36158624
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2022.967081
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