Perception and Cognition: Interactions in the Ageing Brain

• Main Author: Harriet A. Allen (auth)
• Other Authors: Katherine L. Roberts (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; cross-modal; auditory; Ageing; Compensation; visual; older; Cognition; training; Elderly
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Healthy ageing can lead to declines in both perceptual and cognitive functions. Impaired perception, such as that resulting from hearing loss or reduced visual or tactile resolution, increases demands on 'higher-level' cognitive functions to cope or compensate. It is possible, for example,...