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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Human Perception
  • Aging Research

Background:

  • Age-related changes in visual-perceptual processing are not well understood in relation to object naming.
  • Object naming relies on visual perception and lexical-semantic access, both potentially affected by aging.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how spatial frequency and contrast affect object naming accuracy and latency in young and older adults.
  • To determine if age-related differences in naming vary with visual parameters.

Main Methods:

  • 14 young and 13 older adults with normal cognition participated.
  • Object naming was tested under 6 levels of spatial frequency and 6 levels of contrast, manipulated independently.
  • Accuracy and reaction time (latency) were measured.

Main Results:

  • Younger adults were generally faster and more accurate with spatial frequency changes, particularly at low and high frequencies.
  • Older adults were more accurate with contrast changes, especially at low contrast levels (1.25%).
  • Older adults showed a stronger nonliving-object advantage in naming under spatial frequency manipulations.

Conclusions:

  • Visual-perceptual variables like spatial frequency and contrast differentially impact object naming in young and older adults.
  • Age-related differences in naming are modulated by specific visual parameters.
  • Findings suggest an interaction between bottom-up visual processing and top-down category information in aging and object recognition.