Aging, Emotion, Attention, and Binding in the Taboo Stroop Task: Data and Theories.

ABSTRACT: How does aging impact relations between emotion, memory, and attention? To address this question, young and older adults named the font colors of taboo and neutral words, some of which recurred in the same font color or screen location throughout two color-naming experiments. The results indicated longer color-naming response times (RTs) for taboo than neutral base-words (taboo Stroop interference); better incidental recognition of colors and locations consistently associated with taboo versus neutral words (taboo context-memory enhancement); and greater speed-up in color-naming RTs with repetition of color-consistent than color-inconsistent taboo words, but no analogous speed-up with repetition of location-consistent or location-inconsistent taboo words (the consistency type by repetition

SUBMITTER: MacKay DG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4627001 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature