ReviewAnnual review of psychology2016
The Affective Neuroscience of Aging.
Review in Annual review of psychology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 120 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
120 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Defining exceptional cognition in older adults: A systematic review of cognitive super-ageing.International journal of geriatric psychiatry · 2023Pooled it
- How Does Aging Affect Social Attention? A Test of Competing Theories Using Multilevel Meta-Analysis.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2022Pooled it
- The impact of affective information on working memory: A pair of meta-analytic reviews of behavioral and neuroimaging evidence.Psychological bulletin · 2019Pooled it
- Heart rate variability (HRV) changes and cortical volume changes in a randomized trial of five weeks of daily HRV biofeedback in younger and older adults.International journal of psychophysiology : official journal of the International Organization of Psychophysiology · 2022Trial
- PROTOCOL: Financial Literacy Programmes for the Ageing Population: An Evidence and Gap Map.Campbell systematic reviews · 2026Article
- Age differences in what-if thinking from midlife onwards: Prefrontal contribution and implications for emotional health in late life.GeroScience · 2026Article
- Psychometric validation and measurement invariance of the Polish Multi-Affect Indicator across diverse demographic and occupational groups.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Alzheimer's Disease Pathologies Affect Dopaminergic Neural Mechanisms of Memory.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Article
- Increased functional integration of emotional control network across the adult lifespan.Aging brain · 2026Article
- Sleep dependent autonomic correlates of affect and arousal in younger and older adults.Sleep advances : a journal of the Sleep Research Society · 2026Article
- Neurology of cognition and social behavior. A narrative review of neurobiological bases and clinical aspects.Dementia & neuropsychologia · 2026Review
- Does sleep change the emotional bias in memory in older adults?Neuropsychologia · 2025Article
- Age-Related Increase in Locus Ceruleus Activity and Connectivity with the Prefrontal Cortex during Ambiguity Processing.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Age-related changes of human brain metabolism.European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging · 2025Article
- Top-down attention and Alzheimer's pathology affect cortical selectivity during learning, influencing episodic memory in older adults.Science advances · 2025Article
- The negative relationship between brain-age gap and psychological resilience defines the age-related neurocognitive status in older people.GeroScience · 2025Article
- Baseline physical activity moderates brain-behaviour relationships in response to framed health messages.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- Arithmetic Proficiency Across Adulthood: Cognitive and Subjective Influences.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2025Article
- Segregation of three resting-state brain networks predicts reappraisal success across the lifespan.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- Neurobehavioral Mechanisms Influencing the Association Between Generativity, the Desire to Promote Well-Being of Younger Generations, and Purpose in Life in Older Adults at Risk for Alzheimer's Disease.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2024Article
60 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
1 author.
Funding
Abstract
Although aging is associated with clear declines in physical and cognitive processes, emotional functioning fares relatively well. Consistent with this behavioral profile, two core emotional brain regions, the amygdala and ventromedial prefrontal cortex, show little structural and functional decline in aging, compared with other regions. However, emotional processes depend on interacting systems of neurotransmitters and brain regions that go beyond these structures. This review examines how age-related brain changes influence processes such as attending to and remembering emotional stimuli, regulating emotion, and recognizing emotional expressions, as well as empathy, risk taking, impulsivity, behavior change, and attentional focus.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.