Implicit Visuomotor Processing for Quick Online Reactions Is Robust against Aging

It is well established that humans can react more quickly to a visual stimulus in the visual field center than to one in the visual periphery and that the reaction to a stimulus in the visual periphery markedly deteriorates with aging. These tendencies are true in conventional discrimination-reaction tasks. Surprisingly, however, we found that they are entirely different when reactions are induced by the same visual stimuli during reaching movements. The reaction time for a stimulus in the visual periphery was significantly faster than in the central vision, and age-related slowing of reactions to the stimulus in the visual periphery were quite small, compared to that observed in the conventional reaction tasks. This inconsistent slowing of reactions in different motor conditions underscores a distinctive visuomotor pathway for online control, which is more robust against age-related deterioration.

• Publication year

  2010

• Venue

  Journal of Neuroscience

• Publication date

  2010-01-06

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2599-09.2010PMID 20053902PMCID PMC6632514
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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