Trial reportPsychology and aging2016
The cognitive control of emotional versus value-based information in younger and older adults.
Trial report in Psychology and aging, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed.
- Serial and strategic memory processes in younger and older adults.Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition · 2025Article
- Untangling the threads of motivated memory: Independent influences of reward and emotion.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Article
- Memory selectivity in older age.Current opinion in psychology · 2024Review
- Age-related positivity effect in emotional memory consolidation from middle age to late adulthood.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2024Article
- Value-directed memory selectivity relies on goal-directed knowledge of value structure prior to encoding in young and older adults.Psychology and aging · 2023Article
- Developmental change in prefrontal cortex recruitment supports the emergence of value-guided memory.eLife · 2021Article
- Value-directed memory effects on item and context memory.Memory & cognition · 2021Article
- Influence of Reward Motivation on Directed Forgetting in Younger and Older Adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
We investigated age-related changes in the cognitive control of value-based and emotionally valenced information. In 2 experiments, participants completed a selectivity task in which to-be-recalled words differed in value and emotional salience. In Experiment 1, all low-valued words were emotional, and emotional valence (positive/negative) was manipulated between subjects. In Experiment 2, valence was manipulated within subjects, with the addition of a control condition in which all words (emotional and neutral) were equally valued. We found that older and younger adults recalled more neutral words than emotional words in both experiments when emotional words were low-valued, and more emotional words than neutral words in the control condition. Emotion did not interact with age in either experiment, suggesting that the impact of emotional saliency on memory is age-invariant. We also found that the number of items recalled was lower for older compared to younger adults in both experiments. Despite this, older and younger adults showed equivalent selectivity in terms of which words they recalled. These results suggest that older adults employ strategic control and use value-based information to guide memory processes equivalently to younger adults, even in the face of salient emotional information. (PsycINFO Database Record
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