
In this capacity, he holds shares in the company. who produces the commercial version of the 3D-MOT program (NeuroTracker) used in this study.
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The funder provided the software (NeuroTracker) used in this research, but did not have any additional role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.Ĭompeting interests: I have read the journal's policy and the authors of this manuscript have the following competing interests: JF is director of the Visual Psychophysics and Perception Laboratory at the University of Montreal and he is the Chief Science Officer of CogniSens Athletics Inc. JF receives this funding in the form of shares from CogniSens. It was also supported by CogniSens Athletics Inc. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.ĭata Availability: All relevant data are within the paper and its Supporting Information files.įunding: This work was supported by NSERC-Essilor Industrial Research Chair, IRCPJ305729-13.

Received: OctoAccepted: OctoPublished: December 15, 2017Ĭopyright: © 2017 Plourde et al. PLoS ONE 12(12):Įditor: Jorge Marin Mpodozis, Universidad de Chile, CHILE The present results have implications as to how populations differ in their efficiency of using stereoscopic cues for disambiguating complex dynamic scenes.Ĭitation: Plourde M, Corbeil M-E, Faubert J (2017) Effect of age and stereopsis on a multiple-object tracking task. These results show that stereopsis helps children and adults accomplish a MOT task, but has no impact on older adults’ performances. The performance difference between the stereoscopic and non-stereoscopic conditions was significant and similar for the adults and the children but was non significant for the older observers.

The adult group obtained the better scores, followed by the children and the older adult group. A total of 60 observers consisting of three groups of 20 subjects (7–12 years old, 18–40 years old and 65 years and older) completed the task in both conditions (with and without stereoscopic effects). In the present study we evaluated the impact of stereopsis on a MOT task as a function of age. One task that shares characteristics with the requirements for processing dynamic crowds is the multiple object-tracking task (MOT). It is still relatively unknown how stereopsis is used in more complex/ecological contexts such as when walking about in crowds where objects are in motion and occlusions occur. 3D vision develops during childhood and tends to diminish after 65 years of age.
