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Emotional feedback ameliorates older adults' feedback-induced learning.
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- Event-related potentials reveal age-related differences in sensitivity to positive and negative feedback from social and nonsocial sources.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2026Article
- Age differences in socio-emotional feedback processing during learning: an ERP study.Frontiers in aging neuroscience · 2026Article
- Social versus nonsocial visual cues of trustworthiness uniquely influence trust related behavior and memory.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The impact of emotional feedback in learning easy and difficult tasks - an ERP study.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- A focus group study for the design of a web-based tool for improving problem-solving in older adults.European journal of ageing · 2024Article
- Subjective cognitive decline in healthy older adults is associated with altered processing of negative versus positive feedback in a probabilistic learning task.Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Social feedback enhances learning in Williams syndrome.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Multimodal mechanisms of human socially reinforced learning across neurodegenerative diseases.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2022Article
- Introducing the PLOS ONE Collection on the neuroscience of reward and decision making.PloS one · 2020Article
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Abstract
In older age, learning and feedback processing are usually impaired. This is thought to be due to impairments in the dopaminergic system and the anterior cingulate cortex. By contrast, processing of affective information seems to remain relatively intact. Recent research has also demonstrated that cognitive functioning can be influenced by affective materials or contexts and lead to an enhancement in diverse cognitive tasks. Hence, the aim of the present study was to explore, whether emotional feedback would counteract age-related learning deficits and strengthen early and later phases of feedback processing as reflected in the feedback-related negativity (FRN) and P3b of the event-related potential (ERP). Younger and older participants conducted a probabilistic reinforcement learning task in which the accurate responses had to be learned via feedback. In emotional trials, feedback stimuli consisted of faces with smiling and disgusted expressions, and in a non-emotional condition, positive and negative feedback was indicated by the background color of faces with neutral expressions. Our main results were that older adults showed better learning performance in the emotional feedback condition and a larger P3b after emotional than non-emotional feedback indexing heightened working memory updating after task relevant events.
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