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| Title |
Friend or foe? Decoding the facilitative and disruptive effects of emotion on working memory in younger and older adults
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, January 2014
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00094 |
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| Authors |
Linda Truong, Lixia Yang |
| Abstract |
A growing body of work on emotion-cognition interactions has revealed both facilitative and disruptive effects of emotion on working memory in younger adults. These differing effects may vary by the goal relevancy of emotion within a task. Additionally, it is possible that these emotional effects would be larger for older adults, considering findings of preserved emotional processing with age. To test these hypotheses, the current study examined the effects of emotional content and aging on working memory for target information in the presence of distraction. Thirty-six younger (ages 18-29) and 36 older adults (ages 65-87) completed a delayed-response working memory task. Participants viewed two target words intermixed with two distracter words, and then judged whether a subsequently presented probe word was one of the target words. The emotional content (valence and arousal) of targets and distracters was systematically manipulated. Results indicated that emotional targets facilitated working memory in both age groups. In contrast, emotional distracters disrupted performance. Negative distracters were particularly disruptive for older adults, but younger adults did not show an emotional interference effect. These findings help clarify discrepancies in the literature and contribute to the sparse research on emotional working memory in older adults. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 1 | 33% |
| Unknown | 2 | 67% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 3 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 43 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 5% |
| Spain | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 40 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 7 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 5 | 12% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 9% |
| Researcher | 3 | 7% |
| Other | 5 | 12% |
| Unknown | 12 | 28% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 23 | 53% |
| Neuroscience | 3 | 7% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 2 | 5% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 1 | 2% |
| Unspecified | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 12 | 28% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 3. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 April 2014.
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