Crossmodal Congruency Enhances Performance of Healthy Older Adults in Visual-Tactile Pattern Matching

One of the pivotal challenges of aging is to maintain independence in the activities of daily life. In order to adapt to changes in the environment, it is crucial to continuously process and accurately combine simultaneous input from different sensory systems, i.e., crossmodal integration. With aging, performance decreases in multiple cognitive domains. The processing of sensory stimuli constitutes one of the key features of this deterioration....