Older Adults Automatically Detect Age of Older Adults' Photographs: A Visual Mismatch Negativity Study.

ABSTRACT: The human face is one of the most frequently used stimuli in vMMN (visual mismatch negativity) research. Previous studies showed that vMMN is sensitive to facial emotions and gender, but investigations of age-related vMMN differences are relatively rare. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the models' age in photographs were automatically detected, even if the photographs were not parts of the ongoing task. Furthermore, we investigated age-related differences, and the possibility of different sensitivity to photographs of participants' own versus different ages. We recorded event-related potentials (ERPs) to faces of young and old models in younger (N = 20; 18-30 years) and older groups (N = 20; 60-75 years). The faces appeared around the location of the field of

SUBMITTER: Csizmadia P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8417827 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature