Impaired sensitivity to spatial configurations in healthy aging
Chard, James and Cook, Richard and Press, Clare (2022) Impaired sensitivity to spatial configurations in healthy aging. Cortex 155 , pp. 347-356. ISSN 0010-9452.
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Abstract
Studies have found age-related deficits in face processing, including identity and emotion recognition. It is unclear what underlies such atypicalities, and why older adults are unaffected in other apparently similar perceptual tasks. The present study examined the possibility that particular deficits in configural processing impair the perception of faces in healthy aging. Across two signal detection experiments, we required a group of healthy older adults and matched younger adults to detect changes in images of faces that could differ either at the local, featural level, or in configuration of these features. In support of our hypothesis, older adults were particularly impaired in detecting configural changes, relative to detecting changes in features. The impairments were found for both upright and inverted faces and were similar in a task with images of inanimate objects (houses). Drift diffusion modelling suggested that this decline related to reduced evidence accumulation rather than a tendency to make configural judgments based on less evidence. These findings indicate that domain-general problems processing configural information contribute to the difficulties with face processing in healthy aging, and may in principle also contribute to a range of higher-level social difficulties.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | Aging, face perception, visual perception |
School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences |
Depositing User: | James CHARD |
Date Deposited: | 21 Jun 2021 09:14 |
Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 18:10 |
URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/44821 |
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