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Differences in chromatic noise suppression of luminance contrast discrimination in young and elderly people

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 October 2022

Rosa Maria Guimarães Brito ,
Bruna Rafaela Silva Sousa ,
Letícia Miquilini ,
Paulo Roney Kilpp Goulart ,
Marcelo Fernandes Costa Open the ORCID record for Marcelo Fernandes Costa [Opens in a new window] ,
Dora Fix Ventura ,
Maria Izabel Tentes Cortes  and
Givago Silva Souza Open the ORCID record for Givago Silva Souza [Opens in a new window]
Rosa Maria Guimarães Brito
Affiliation:
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Amapá, Macapá, Brazil
Bruna Rafaela Silva Sousa
Affiliation:
Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil
Letícia Miquilini
Affiliation:
Núcleo de Teoria e Pesquisa do Comportamento, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil
Paulo Roney Kilpp Goulart
Affiliation:
Núcleo de Teoria e Pesquisa do Comportamento, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil
Marcelo Fernandes Costa
Affiliation:
Departamento de Psicologia Experimental, Instituto de Psicologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Dora Fix Ventura
Affiliation:
Departamento de Psicologia Experimental, Instituto de Psicologia, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil
Maria Izabel Tentes Cortes
Affiliation:
Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências da Saúde, Universidade Federal do Amapá, Macapá, Brazil
Givago Silva Souza*
Affiliation:
Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil Núcleo de Medicina Tropical, Universidade Federal do Pará, Belém, Brazil
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Corresponding author: Givago Silva Souza, email: givagosouza@ufpa.br
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Abstract

Aging causes impairment of contrast sensitivity and chromatic discrimination, leading to changes in the perceptual interactions between color and luminance information. We aimed to investigate the influence of chromatic noise on luminance contrast thresholds in young and older adults. Forty participants were divided equally into Young (29.6 ± 6.3-year-old) and Elderly Groups (57.8 ± 6.6-year-old). They performed a luminance contrast discrimination task in the presence of chromatic noise maskers using a mosaic stimulus in a mosaic background. Four chromatic noise masking protocols were applied (protan, deutan, tritan, and no-noise protocols). We found that luminance contrast thresholds were significantly elevated by the addition of chromatic noise in both age groups (P < 0.05). In the Elderly group, but not the younger group, thresholds obtained in the tritan protocol were lower than those obtained from protan and deutan protocols (P < 0.05). For all protocols, the luminance contrast thresholds of elderly participants were higher than in young people (P < 0.01). Tritan chromatic noise was less effective in inhibiting luminance discrimination in elderly participants.

Keywords

agingcolorluminancecolor–luminance interactionnoise maskingluminance discrimination
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Research Article
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Visual Neuroscience , Volume 39 , 2022 , E006
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