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@ARTICLE{Riemer:140515,
author = {Riemer, Martin and Wolbers, Thomas and Kuehn, Esther},
title = {{P}reserved multisensory body representations in advanced
age.},
journal = {Scientific reports},
volume = {9},
number = {1},
issn = {2045-2322},
address = {[London]},
publisher = {Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature},
reportid = {DZNE-2020-06837},
pages = {2663},
year = {2019},
abstract = {The internal representation of the body emerges via the
integration of multisensory body cues. Sensory signal
transfer and the ability to integrate multisensory
information deteriorate significantly with increasing age.
However, there is little empirical evidence on age-related
changes in body representations based on multisensory
integration. Here, we used a standard paradigm for
evaluating body representations based on multisensory
integration, the rubber hand illusion, and compared the
amount of proprioceptive drift and changes in perceived body
ownership triggered by the integration of visual, tactile,
and proprioceptive cues between younger and older adults. To
account for potential age-related differences in the
temporal stability of the illusion, proprioceptive drift was
measured at five different time points. Our results show
that older adults used synchronous visuo-tactile cues
similarly to younger adults to update both the position of
their own hand, and their feeling of ownership over the
artificial hand. Independent of visuo-tactile synchrony,
older adults perceived their hand as closer to their body
than younger adults did, and showed a less stable
representation of this in-depth hand position. This
proprioceptive bias towards the body did not correlate with
the strength of the illusion. Our results indicate that the
integration of visual and tactile cues is largely preserved
in advanced age when used to update limb position, whereas
proprioception worsens with age. This may be linked to two
different pathways that underlie changes in body
representations over the life span.},
keywords = {Adolescent / Adult / Age Factors / Aged / Aged, 80 and over
/ Body Image / Female / Humans / Male / Perception /
Proprioception / Young Adult},
cin = {AG Wolbers},
ddc = {600},
cid = {I:(DE-2719)1310002},
pnm = {344 - Clinical and Health Care Research (POF3-344)},
pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF3-344},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16},
pubmed = {pmid:30804474},
pmc = {pmc:PMC6389982},
doi = {10.1038/s41598-019-39270-7},
url = {https://pub.dzne.de/record/140515},
}