ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2020
Neural mechanisms supporting emotional and self-referential information processing and encoding in older and younger adults.
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- Putting Emotional Memories in Context: The Constructionist Model of Emotional Memory.Perspectives on psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2026Review
- Predictive neural processing of self-generated hand and tool actions in patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders and healthy individuals.Translational psychiatry · 2025Article
- Individual Differences in Older Adult Frontal Lobe Function Relate to Memory and Neural Activity for Self-Relevant and Emotional Content.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2024Article
- Age-related reduction in anxiety and neural encoding of negative emotional memory.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2024Article
- Independent replications reveal anterior and posterior cingulate cortex activation underlying state anxiety-attenuated face encoding.Communications psychology · 2024Article
- Self-prioritization is supported by interactions between large-scale brain networks.The European journal of neuroscience · 2022Article
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Abstract
Emotion and self-referential information can both enhance memory, but whether they do so via common mechanisms across the adult lifespan remains underexplored. To address this gap, the current study directly compared, within the same fMRI paradigm, the encoding of emotionally salient and self-referential information in older adults and younger adults. Behavioral results replicated the typical patterns of better memory for emotional than neutral information and for self-referential than non-self-referential materials; these memory enhancements were present for younger and older adults. In neural activity, young and older adults showed similar modulation by emotion, but there were substantial age differences in the way self-referential processing affected neural recruitment. Contrary to our hypothesis, we found little evidence for overlap in the neural mechanisms engaged for emotional and self-referential processing. These results reveal that-just as in cognitive domains-older adults can show similar performance to younger adults in socioemotional domains even though the two age groups engage distinct neural mechanisms. These findings demonstrate the need for future research delving into the neural mechanisms supporting older adults' memory benefits for socioemotional material.
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