Emotional Response Inhibition Is Greater in Older Than Younger Adults.

ABSTRACT: Emotional information rapidly captures our attention and also often invokes automatic response tendencies, whereby positive information motivates approach, while negative information encourages avoidance. However, many circumstances require the need to override or inhibit these automatic responses. Control over responses to emotional information remains largely intact in late life, in spite of age-related declines in cognitive control and inhibition of responses to non-emotional information. The goal of this behavioral study was to understand how the aging process influences emotional response inhibition for positive and negative information in older adults. We examined emotional response inhibition in 36 healthy older adults (ages 60-89) and 44 younger adults (ages 18-22) using an emotion

SUBMITTER: Waring JD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6504835 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature