ArticleRoyal Society open science2020
Older adults detect happy facial expressions less rapidly.
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- Effects of age on behavioural and eye gaze on Theory of Mind using movie for social cognition.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2024Article
- Computational analysis of value learning and value-driven detection of neutral faces by young and older adults.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Influence of stimulus manipulation on conscious awareness of emotional facial expressions in the match-to-sample paradigm.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- The role of automatic and controlled processes in the positivity effect for older adults.Aging clinical and experimental research · 2022Article
- Impairment of emotional expression detection after unilateral medial temporal structure resection.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Decline in Emotional Face Recognition Among Elderly People May Reflect Mild Cognitive Impairment.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Previous experimental psychology studies based on visual search paradigms have reported that young adults detect emotional facial expressions more rapidly than emotionally neutral expressions. However, it remains unclear whether this holds in older adults. We investigated this by comparing the abilities of young and older adults to detect emotional and neutral facial expressions while controlling the visual properties of faces presented (termed anti-expressions) in a visual search task. Both age groups detected normal angry faces more rapidly than anti-angry faces. However, whereas young adults detected normal happy faces more rapidly than anti-happy faces, older adults did not. This suggests that older adults may not be easy to detect or focusing attention towards smiling faces appearing peripherally.
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