ERP evidence of age-related differences in emotional processing.
Aging
Emotional processing
Event-related potentials
N400
Positivity bias
Journal
Experimental brain research
ISSN: 1432-1106
Titre abrégé: Exp Brain Res
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 0043312
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Apr 2021
Apr 2021
Historique:
received:
24
03
2020
accepted:
01
02
2021
pubmed:
21
2
2021
medline:
29
7
2021
entrez:
20
2
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The present study used event-related potentials (ERPs) to examine differences in the temporal dynamics of emotion processing in young and older adults, with a specific focus on the positivity effect, that is, the preferential processing of positive over negative information. To this aim, we used a language paradigm that allowed us to investigate early ERP components as well as later components, namely the N400 and the late positive complex (LPC). Young and older adults were presented with neutral sentence stems with positive, negative or neutral/semantically-incongruent critical word endings while their electrical brain activity was recorded. There were no effects of emotional valence on early ERP components. Instead, a positivity effect was evident in young adults indexed by reduced N400s for positive sentence endings. Perhaps due to reduced semantic processing abilities, older adults did not show any N400 effect. ERP effects in this group were evident at a later processing stage and took the form of larger LPCs for neutral/incongruent information. Overall, there was no effect of emotional valence on either the N400 or the LPC in older adults. Our data suggest that with age, more effortful semantic processing may deplete resources for emotional processing.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33609173
doi: 10.1007/s00221-021-06053-4
pii: 10.1007/s00221-021-06053-4
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Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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