期刊
VISION RESEARCH
卷 51, 期 1, 页码 160-164出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.10.026
关键词
Face perception; Visual aging; Face orientation; Cortical inhibition; Neural modeling
资金
- CIHR [172103]
- Ontario Ministry of Research Innovation
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
Perception of visual motion declines during healthy aging, and evidence suggests that this reflects decreases in cortical GABA inhibition that increase neural noise and motion bandwidths. This is supported by neurophysiological data on motion perception in senescent monkeys. Much less is known about deficits in higher level form vision. For example, face perception of frontal views remains relatively constant from adolescence through age 70 with a modest decline thereafter. However, we have shown recently that the elderly have a specific deficit in face matching when a transformation must be made between frontal and left or right side views. Here we use face view adaptation to demonstrate that this deficit results from significant broadening of cortical bandwidths for face orientation along with increased internal noise. A neural model shows that these bandwidths increase by a factor of 1.74 between age 26 and age 67 years. This is similar to the increase reported for motion bandwidths in senescent monkeys. Furthermore, the neural model demonstrates that head orientation bandwidth increases can arise from decreased cortical inhibition. Thus, high levels of form vision degrade in parallel with higher levels of motion perception and likely result from similar causes. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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