DATA ANALYSIS OF AGE-RELATED CHANGES IN VISUAL MOTION PERCEPTION

Nadejda Bocheva, Olga Georgieva, Miroslava Stefanova

2011

Abstract

Many cognitive abilities decline with age, but ageing is accompanied by great variability within older population. The aim of the present study is to explore the possibility to differentiate the age-related and the individual differences in visual information processing. Two different analytical methods – mixed ANOVA and fuzzy clustering, were applied to the data of psychophysical experiments on motion direction discrimination. The results suggest that the complementary analysis based on both methods offers new opportunities to retrieve information from the psychophysical studies and to separate the differences due to age and gender from the individual differences of the participants. The proposed data analytic approach allows better understanding of the factors that caused variation in performance with age and can be used as a diagnostic tool to distinguish pathological from normal ageing.

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Bocheva N., Georgieva O. and Stefanova M. (2011). DATA ANALYSIS OF AGE-RELATED CHANGES IN VISUAL MOTION PERCEPTION . In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-8425-40-9, pages 556-561. DOI: 10.5220/0003147505560561


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@conference{icaart11,
author={Nadejda Bocheva and Olga Georgieva and Miroslava Stefanova},
title={DATA ANALYSIS OF AGE-RELATED CHANGES IN VISUAL MOTION PERCEPTION},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2011},
pages={556-561},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003147505560561},
isbn={978-989-8425-40-9},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - DATA ANALYSIS OF AGE-RELATED CHANGES IN VISUAL MOTION PERCEPTION
SN - 978-989-8425-40-9
AU - Bocheva N.
AU - Georgieva O.
AU - Stefanova M.
PY - 2011
SP - 556
EP - 561
DO - 10.5220/0003147505560561