ArticleCognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience2018
Older adults' neural activation in the reward circuit is sensitive to face trustworthiness.
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- Age-Related Differences in Amygdala Activation Associated With Face Trustworthiness but No Evidence of Oxytocin Modulation.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- A stronger relationship between reward responsivity and trustworthiness evaluations emerges in healthy aging.Neuropsychology, development, and cognition. Section B, Aging, neuropsychology and cognition · 2021Article
- Age differences in Neural Activation to Face Trustworthiness: Voxel Pattern and Activation Level Assessments.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2021Article
- Age and intranasal oxytocin effects on trust-related decisions after breach of trust: Behavioral and brain evidence.Psychology and aging · 2021Article
- Interpersonal brain synchronization under bluffing in strategic games.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2020Article
- CISDA: Changes in Integration for Social Decisions in Aging.Wiley interdisciplinary reviews. Cognitive science · 2019Review
- Age differences in specific neural connections within the Default Mode Network underlie theory of mind.NeuroImage · 2019Article
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Abstract
We examined older adult (OA) and younger adult (YA) neural sensitivity to face trustworthiness in reward circuit regions, previously found to respond to trustworthiness in YA. Interactions of face trustworthiness with age revealed effects exclusive to OA in the amygdala and caudate, and an effect that was not moderated by age in the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC). OA, but not YA, showed a nonlinear amygdala response to face trustworthiness, with significantly stronger activation response to high than to medium trustworthy faces, and no difference between low and medium or high. This may explain why an earlier study investigating OA amygdala activation to trustworthiness failed to find a significant effect, since only the linear low versus high trustworthiness difference was assessed. OA, but not YA, also showed significantly stronger activation to high than to low trustworthy faces in the right caudate, indicating a positive linear effect, consistent with previous YA research, as well as significantly stronger activation to high than to medium but not low trustworthy faces in the left caudate, indicating a nonlinear effect. Activation in dACC across both age groups showed a positive linear effect consistent with previous YA research. Finally, OA rated the faces as more trustworthy than did YA across all levels of trustworthiness. Future research should examine whether the null effects for YA were due to our inclusion of older faces. Research also should investigate possible implications of our findings for more ecologically valid OA responses to people who vary in facial trustworthiness.
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