ArticleThe journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences2013
Both younger and older adults have difficulty updating emotional memories.
Article in The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.
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- Distortion of overlapping memories relates to arousal and anxiety.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Negative emotional content disrupts the coherence of episodic memories.Journal of experimental psychology. General · 2018Article
- The Affective Neuroscience of Aging.Annual review of psychology · 2016Review
- Current research and emerging directions in emotion-cognition interactions.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2014Article
- Age-related similarities and differences in brain activity underlying reversal learning.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2013Article
- High reward makes items easier to remember, but harder to bind to a new temporal context.Frontiers in integrative neuroscience · 2012Article
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Abstract
objectiveThe main purpose of the study was to examine whether emotion impairs associative memory for previously seen items in older adults, as previously observed in younger adults.
methodThirty-two younger adults and 32 older adults participated. The experiment consisted of 2 parts. In Part 1, participants learned picture-object associations for negative and neutral pictures. In Part 2, they learned picture-location associations for negative and neutral pictures; half of these pictures were seen in Part 1 whereas the other half were new. The dependent measure was how many locations of negative versus neutral items in the new versus old categories participants remembered in Part 2.
resultsBoth groups had more difficulty learning the locations of old negative pictures than of new negative pictures. However, this pattern was not observed for neutral items. DISCUSSION: Despite the fact that older adults showed overall decline in associative memory, the impairing effect of emotion on updating associative memory was similar between younger and older adults.
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