ArticleEmotion (Washington, D.C.)2020
Age differences in emotion-induced blindness: Positivity effects in early attention.
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- Age Differences in the Tradeoff between Proactive and Reactive Cognitive Control in Emotional Information Processing.Brain sciences · 2022Article
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- Conflict monitoring and adaptation to affective stimuli as a function of ageing.Cognitive processing · 2021Article
- Positivity effect in aging: evidence for the primacy of positive responses to emotional ambiguity.Neurobiology of aging · 2021Article
- Effect of Cognitive Control on Age-Related Positivity Effects in Attentional Processing - Evidence From an Event-Related Brain Potential Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Effect of Cognitive Control on Attentional Processing of Emotional Information Among Older Adults: Evidence From an Eye-Tracking Study.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2021Article
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Compared with younger adults, older adults tend to favor positive information more than negative information in their attention and memory. This "positivity effect" has been observed in various paradigms, but at which stage it impacts cognitive processing and how it influences processing other stimuli appearing around the same time remains unclear. Across 4 experiments, we examined how older adults prioritize emotional information in early attention. Both younger and older adults demonstrated emotion-induced blindness-identifying targets in a rapid serial display of pictures with less accuracy after emotional compared with neutral distractors-but older adults demonstrated a positivity bias at this early attentional level. Moreover, the bias toward positive but not negative information in older adults was reduced when they had a working memory load. These results suggest that a selective bias toward positive, but not negative, information occurs early in visual processing, and the bias relies on cognitive control resources. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved).
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