The aim of the present work was to verify whether the perception of visual and acoustic characteristics of urban parks is influenced by the age of the participants. Fifty young (average age 25 years) and fifty elderly (average age 66 years) people were shown with combinations of different types of urban parks (i.e., green, colorful parks and squares) and different types of sound (i.e., bird song, water, chattering and traffic). For each audio-video scenario, participants indicated how calm, happy and stimulated it made them feel and how pleasant, exciting and attractive each scenario was. In addition, participants performed a cross-modal attention task and filled out an interoceptive awareness questionnaire. The results showed that both young and elderly participants preferred green parks with natural sounds. In addition, elderly participants positively evaluated colorful parks over squares. Interestingly, young participants gave more importance to the evaluation of visual-only elements than auditory-only elements, whereas elderly participants gave more importance to the acoustic characteristics of scenarios than the visual ones. Finally, in the elderly group, both attentional abilities and interoceptive awareness contributed to the positive evaluation of urban parks. Theoretically, the results suggest that both signals from the body and from the external world contribute to a holistic representation of the environment. Cross-modal attention may play a crucial role in this process. On an applied level, the data suggest that the design of colorful parks and soundscapes that evoke nature should be encouraged, especially for older populations.

本工作的目的是验证城市公园的视觉和听觉特征的感知是否受到参与者年龄的影响。向 50 名年轻人（平均年龄 25 岁）和 50 名老年人（平均年龄 66 岁）展示了不同类型的城市公园（即绿色、色彩缤纷的公园和广场）和不同类型的声音（即鸟鸣声、流水声）的组合。 、喋喋不休和交通）。对于每个音视频场景，参与者都表示了它给他们带来的平静、快乐和刺激程度，以及每个场景的愉快、兴奋和吸引力。此外，参与者还执行了跨模式注意力任务并填写了内感受意识调查问卷。结果显示，年轻人和老年人都更喜欢有自然声音的绿色公园。此外，老年参与者对色彩缤纷的公园的评价优于广场。有趣的是，年轻参与者比仅听觉元素更重视对纯视觉元素的评估，而老年参与者则更重视场景的声学特征而不是视觉特征。最后，在老年人组中，注意力能力和内感受意识都有助于对城市公园的积极评价。从理论上讲，结果表明来自身体和外部世界的信号都有助于对环境的整体表征。跨模式注意力可能在此过程中发挥至关重要的作用。在应用层面上，数据表明，应该鼓励设计色彩缤纷的公园和唤起自然的声音景观，特别是对于老年人群。