Contributions of Multisensory Processing and Integration in Successful Ageing
A special issue of Brain Sciences (ISSN 2076-3425). This special issue belongs to the section "Sensory and Motor Neuroscience".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 October 2025 | Viewed by 41
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Ageing is accompanied by a richer knowledge reserve and skillset based on a multitude of life experiences. However, these gains are often coupled with degradations in sensory, temporal, and cognitive processing due to alterations in the functioning of the central nervous system as well as other physiological systems. These degradations negatively affect daily functioning and independence, which, in turn, lead to a general decline in physical and mental well-being with increasing rates of accidents and social exclusion.
Current efforts to ameliorate the negative effects of normal ageing have been focused on research to prevent falls, enhance cognitive processes, or provide assistive companions. To date, however, no effort has been made to exploit the benefits of multisensory integration for successful ageing. This is an important gap particularly because our physical environment provides us with a variety of sensory information, and adaptive functioning requires the brain to integrate these multiple sources of information in a way that allows the individual to operate within such an environment in a goal-directed fashion. Even before birth, humans are equipped with functional sensory organs that enable perception and action in a highly complex world. Sensory inputs are integrated to create a multisensory experience that allows for faster and more accurate detection and reaction to events, the flexible deployment of attention to events of interest, better encoding and retrieval of information, and the faster acquisition of new information. This Special Issue aims to bring together basic and applied research on the contributions of multisensory processing and integration in healthy ageing to collect a body of literature, with the aim of paving the path of future interventions in the ever-growing ageing population.
Dr. Argiro Vatakis
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- multisensory
- sensory
- ageing
- multisensory integration
- multisensory processing
- healthy ageing
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