Narrative review of the multisensory integration tasks used with older adults: inclusion of multisensory integration tasks into neuropsychological assessment

Pinto, Joana O; Melo, Bruno Bastos Vieira de; Dores, Artemisa Rocha; Peixoto, Bruno; Geraldo, Argemiro; Barbosa, Fernando

doi:10.1080/14737175.2021.1914592

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“…According to Luria's neurocognitive model, sensation comprises three hierarchical processes of interest for NI: (a) receiving sensory stimuli (namely visual, auditory, and tactile) and analysing their elementary components ; (b) coding and storing sensory information ; and (c) multisensory integration (Luria, 1963; Semrud‐Clikeman & Ellison, 2009). Several tasks can be considered to improve the aforementioned hierarchical processes: (a) sensory detection tasks; (b) sensory discrimination tasks; (c) illusion tasks, such as rubber hand illusion, sensory conflict, sound‐induced flash illusion, and McGurk effect ; and (d) temporal judgment tasks (for a detailed description of these tasks, see Pinto et al, 2021; see Figure 3).…”

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Proposal of a common terminology for the neuropsychological rehabilitation

Pinto

Peixoto

Dores

et al. 2023

Journal of Neuropsychology

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The literature on neuropsychological intervention (NI) uses a variety of terms to refer to equivalent constructs, making it difficult to compare intervention programmes and their outcomes. The purpose of this work is to propose a unified terminological framework for describing NI programmes. The terminological framework was developed based on a previous proposal for common terminology by Johnstone and Stonnington (Rehabilitation of neuropsychological disorders: A practical guide for rehabilitation professionals. Psychology Press, 2011) and driven by Cognitive Psychology concepts. The terminological framework was organized into two sections: (a) NI, which includes types of NI, methods and approaches, instructional methods, and strategies; and (b) neurocognitive functions, which include temporal and spatial orientation, sensation, perception, visuo‐constructional abilities, attention, memory, language, reasoning of several sorts (e.g., abstract reasoning, and numerical reasoning), and executive functions. Most NI tasks target a main neurocognitive function, but there are underlying neurocognitive functions that may impair performance in the former. Since it is difficult to create a task that is solely focused on one neurocognitive function, the proposed terminology should not be viewed as a taxonomy, but rather as dimensional, with the same task allowing to work different functions, in varying grades. Adopting this terminological framework will allow to define the targeted neurocognitive functions more accurately and simplify the comparison between NI programmes and their outcomes. Future research should focus on describing the main techniques/strategies for each neurocognitive function and non‐cognitive interventions.

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Proposal of a common terminology for the neuropsychological rehabilitation

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“…Multisensory integration in development, aging and diseases is an important theme in mammalian studies. The loss of multisensory integration is also an indicator of neural function regression in the elderly population [ 104 , 105 , 106 ]. In the past, most studies in C. elegans neurobiology utilized young adults to avoid confounding from development and frailty in the elderly.…”

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Multisensory Integration in Caenorhabditis elegans in Comparison to Mammals

Xue

Chen

2022

Brain Sciences

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Multisensory integration refers to sensory inputs from different sensory modalities being processed simultaneously to produce a unitary output. Surrounded by stimuli from multiple modalities, animals utilize multisensory integration to form a coherent and robust representation of the complex environment. Even though multisensory integration is fundamentally essential for animal life, our understanding of the underlying mechanisms, especially at the molecular, synaptic and circuit levels, remains poorly understood. The study of sensory perception in Caenorhabditis elegans has begun to fill this gap. We have gained a considerable amount of insight into the general principles of sensory neurobiology owing to C. elegans’ highly sensitive perceptions, relatively simple nervous system, ample genetic tools and completely mapped neural connectome. Many interesting paradigms of multisensory integration have been characterized in C. elegans, for which input convergence occurs at the sensory neuron or the interneuron level. In this narrative review, we describe some representative cases of multisensory integration in C. elegans, summarize the underlying mechanisms and compare them with those in mammalian systems. Despite the differences, we believe C. elegans is able to provide unique insights into how processing and integrating multisensory inputs can generate flexible and adaptive behaviors. With the emergence of whole brain imaging, the ability of C. elegans to monitor nearly the entire nervous system may be crucial for understanding the function of the brain as a whole.

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“…The race model states CDF AV ≤ CDF A (t) + CDF V (t), where “CDF” is the Cumulative Density Function of the audiovisual motor responses condition (AV) and individual unisensory auditory (A) and visual (V) stimuli (for more details, see Ulrich et al, 2007 ). Studies employing this “inequality model” have now been widely utilized in adults and indicate that the level of gains from multisensory stimuli is too high to be predicted by race models in adults (e.g., Giray and Ulrich, 1993 ; Forster et al, 2002 ; Couth et al, 2018 ; Pinto et al, 2021 ). By comparison, Barutchu et al (2009) confirmed that the motor responses of children under 8 fit with the predictions of race model inequality.…”

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

Alhamdan

Murphy

2022

Front. Hum. Neurosci.

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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 (BF10 = 4.71 to 91.346), though not with the threshold IT (BF10 < 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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Narrative review of the multisensory integration tasks used with older adults: inclusion of multisensory integration tasks into neuropsychological assessment

Cited by 6 publications

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Proposal of a common terminology for the neuropsychological rehabilitation

Proposal of a common terminology for the neuropsychological rehabilitation

Multisensory Integration in Caenorhabditis elegans in Comparison to Mammals

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

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