Age-Related Changes in the Processing of Emotional Faces in a Dual-Task Paradigm.
Background/ Study Context: Age-related changes appear to affect the ability to identify emotional facial expressions in dual-task conditions (i.e., while simultaneously performing a second visual task). The level of interference generated by the secondary task depends on the phase of emotional proce...
| Publicado en: | Experimental Aging Research Vol. 42; no. 2; pp. 129 - 144 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Mar/Apr2016
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ccm&AN=113139924&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ccm uiTerm: 113139924 longDbName: CINAHL Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: dissinfo: jinfo: jid: 0361073X 1HO jtl: Experimental Aging Research issn: 0361073X maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: Mar/Apr2016 vid: 42 iid: 2 pid: 377 pub: Taylor & Francis Ltd place: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania artinfo: ui: 113139924 113139924 113139924 10.1080/0361073X.2016.1132819 113139924 ppf: 129 ppct: 15 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P tig: atl: Age-Related Changes in the Processing of Emotional Faces in a Dual-Task Paradigm. aug: au: Casares-Guillén, Carmen García-Rodríguez, Beatriz Delgado, Marisa Ellgring, Heiner affil: Facultad de Psicología, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Madrid, Spain sug: subj: Facial Expression Visual Perception Emotions Cognitive Aging Task Performance and Analysis Human Aged Young Adult Adult Age Factors Experimental Studies Attention Coding Nonverbal Communication Cognition Interpersonal Relations Aged: 65+ years Adult: 19-44 years ab: Background/ Study Context: Age-related changes appear to affect the ability to identify emotional facial expressions in dual-task conditions (i.e., while simultaneously performing a second visual task). The level of interference generated by the secondary task depends on the phase of emotional processing affected by the interference and the nature of the secondary task. The aim of the present study was to investigate the effect of these variables on age-related changes in the processing of emotional faces. Methods: The identification of emotional facial expressions (EFEs) was assessed in a dual-task paradigm using the following variables: (a) the phase during which interference was applied (encoding vs. retrieval phase); and (b) the nature of the interfering stimulus (visuospatial vs. verbal). The sample population consisted of 24 healthy aged adults (mean age = 75.38) and 40 younger adults (mean age = 26.90). The accuracy of EFE identification was calculated for all experimental conditions. Results: Consistent with our hypothesis, the performance of the older group was poorer than that of the younger group in all experimental conditions. Dual-task performance was poorer when the interference occurred during the encoding phase of emotional face processing and when both tasks were of the same nature (i.e., when the experimental condition was more demanding in terms of attention). Conclusions: These results provide empirical evidence of age-related deficits in the identification of emotional facial expressions, which may be partially explained by the impairment of cognitive resources specific to this task. These findings may account for the difficulties experienced by the elderly during social interactions that require the concomitant processing of emotional and environmental information. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article ougenre: Article language: English refInfo: holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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