| Literature DB >> 20510266 |
Stanley W Govenlock1, Christopher P Taylor, Allison B Sekuler, Patrick J Bennett.
Abstract
Changes in the physiological properties of senescent V1 neurons suggest that the mechanisms encoding spatial frequency in primate cortex may become more broadly tuned in old age (Zhang et al., European Journal of Neuroscience, 2008, 28, 201-207). We examined this possibility in two psychophysical experiments that used masking to estimate the bandwidth of spatial frequency-selective mechanisms in younger (age approximately 22years) and older (age approximately 65years) human adults. Contrary to predictions from physiological studies, in both experiments, the spatial frequency selectivity of masking was essentially identical in younger and older subjects. Copyright 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Entities:
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Year: 2010 PMID： 20510266 DOI： 10.1016/j.visres.2010.05.025
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Vision Res ISSN： 0042-6989 Impact factor: 1.886