Emotion identification and aging: Behavioral and neural age-related changes

Gonçalves, Ana R.; Fernandes, Carina; Pasion, Rita; Ferreira‐Santos, Fernando; Barbosa, Fernando; Marques‐Teixeira, João

doi:10.1016/j.clinph.2018.02.128

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“…Interestingly, N170 amplitudes of older adults were significantly higher than those of younger adults and marginally higher than those of middle-aged adults. This is consistent with the results of a previous study conducted by our group, in which we examined age-related differences in emotion identification abilities (Gonçalves et al, 2018b). In this study, such results occur simultaneously with an equivalent performance in emotion identification, which is consistent with the compensation hypothesis (Cabeza, 2002;Reuter-Lorenz & Cappell, 2008).…”

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“…That is, while younger and middle-aged adults showed higher LPP amplitudes after FEEs congruent with previous scenarios than after incongruent FEEs, older adults had similar amplitudes after both. It is worth noting that this insensitivity of older adults' LPP to the congruency of the trials is not explained by an age-related decline in face encoding, bearing in mind the results obtained with the N170 amplitudes (Gonçalves et al, 2018b). Moreover, this was observed independent of the accuracy, since only correct trials were considered on the analysis of the ERPs.…”

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“…While one study showed reduced lateralization (typically evidenced to the right hemisphere), interpreted as compensation for age-related decline (Komes, Schweinberger, & Wiese, 2014), another study showed that older adults had an increased N170 for negative faces and a similar N170 for positive faces (Liao, Wang, Lin, Chan, & Zhang, 2017). Indeed, a study from our group showed that younger, middle-aged, and older adults had similar performances in an emotional identification task, which was accompanied by an increased N170 amplitude in the older group (Gonçalves et al, 2018b).…”

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“…However, prior to conducting the study, we targeted a sample size of 30 for each age group, somewhat higher than in previous studies using ERP methodologies applied to perspective-taking or ToM tasks (Bowman et al, 2012;Decety et al, 2010;Li & Han, 2010;Liu et al, 2004;Liu et al, 2009;Meinhardt et al, 2011;McCleery et al, 2011;Wang et al, 2010). The current study was part of a larger research project (Fernandes et al, 2018;Gonçalves et al, 2018b;Pasion et al, 2018), which was approved by the local Ethics Committee. Participants provided written informed consent in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and were compensated with a fixed amount of 20€ (as a gift card) for their time.…”

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Age-related decline in emotional perspective-taking: Its effect on the late positive potential

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Aging is associated with changes in cognitive and affective functioning, which likely shape older adults' social cognition. As the neural and psychological mechanisms underlying age differences in social abilities remain poorly understood, the present study aims to extend the research in this field. To this purpose, younger (n = 30; M age = 26.6), middle-aged (n = 30; M age = 48.4), and older adults (n = 29; M age = 64.5) performed a task designed to assess affective perspective-taking, during an EEG recording. In this task, participants decided whether a target facial expression of emotion (FEE) was congruent or incongruent with that of a masked intervener of a previous scenario, which portrayed a neutral or an emotional scene. Older adults showed worse performance in comparison to the other groups. Regarding electrophysiological results, while younger and middle-aged adults showed higher late positive potentials (LPPs) after FEEs congruent with previous scenarios than after incongruent FEEs, older adults had similar amplitudes after both. This insensitivity of older adults' LPPs in differentiating congruent from incongruent emotional context-target FEE may be related to their difficulty in generating information about others' inner states and using that information in social interactions.

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“…Emotion identification ability is also fundamental to regulate behavior such as selectively attending and approaching to positively stimuli to elicit positive feelings and avoid negative ones (Gross, Richards, & John, 2006). Importantly, presenting facial emotional stimuli is a valid and reliable approach in order to activate brain areas crucial for emotion processing (Fusar-Poli et al, 2009) and emotion identification tasks have been used in studies assessing emotional processing (Ebner & Johnson, 2009;Gonçalves et al, 2018;Grady, Keightley, Hongwanishkul, Lee, & Hasher, 2007;Mienaltowski, Corballis, Blanchard-Fields, Parks, & Hilimire, 2011;Williams et al, 2006).…”

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Peer Review #1 of "Effects of age on the identification of emotions in facial expressions: a meta-analysis (v0.2)"

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Background. Emotion identification is a fundamental component of social cognition. Although it is well established that a general cognitive decline occurs with advancing age, the effects of age on emotion identification is still unclear. A meta-analysis by Ruffman and colleagues (2008) explored this issue, but much research has been published since then, reporting inconsistent findings. Methods. To examine age differences in the identification of facial expressions of emotion, we conducted a meta-analysis of 24 empirical studies (N = 1033 older adults, N = 1135 younger adults) published after 2008. Additionally, a meta-regression analysis was conducted to identify potential moderators. Results. Results show that older adults less accurately identify facial expressions of anger, sadness, fear, surprise, and happiness compared to younger adults, strengthening the results obtained by Ruffman et al. (2008). However, meta-regression analyses indicate that effect sizes are moderated by sample characteristics and stimulus features. Importantly, the estimated effect size for the identification of fear and disgust increased for larger differences in the number of years of formal education between the two groups. Discussion: We discuss several factors that might explain the age-related differences in emotion identification and suggest how brain changes may account for the observed pattern. Furthermore, moderator effects are interpreted and discussed.

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Neural mechanisms of decision‐making in aging

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2019

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The present review synthesizes findings on decision neuroscience and aging by focusing on decision processes that have been extensively studied in neuroeconomics and critically assessing the driving mechanisms of age‐related change. The paper first highlights age‐related changes to key brain structures that have been implicated in decision‐making, then, reviews specific decision components and discusses investigations of age‐related changes to their neural mechanisms. The review also weighs evidence for organic brain aging versus age‐related changes to social and psychological factors in mediating age effects. Reviewed findings are discussed in the context of theories and frameworks that have been used to explain trajectories of change in decision‐making across adulthood. This article is categorized under: Psychology > Development and Aging Psychology > Reasoning and Decision‐Making Neuroscience > Cognition

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Emotion identification and aging: Behavioral and neural age-related changes

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Age-related decline in emotional perspective-taking: Its effect on the late positive potential

Age-related decline in emotional perspective-taking: Its effect on the late positive potential

Peer Review #1 of "Effects of age on the identification of emotions in facial expressions: a meta-analysis (v0.2)"

Neural mechanisms of decision‐making in aging

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