An emotional Stroop task with faces and words. A comparison of young and older adults |
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| Institution: | 1. UMIT Tirol, University for Health Sciences, Medical Informatics and Technology, Hall in Tirol, Austria;2. University of Jaén, Department of Psychology, Jaén, Spain;3. University of the Balearic Islands, Research Institute of Health Sciences, Spain;4. County Hospital Hochzirl, Austria |
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| Abstract: | AntecedentsGiven the contradictions of previous studies on the changes in attentional responses produced in aging a Stroop emotional task was proposed to compare young and older adults to words or faces with an emotional valence.MethodThe words happy or sad were superimposed on faces that express the emotion of happiness or sadness. The emotion expressed by the word and the face could agree or not (cued and uncued trials, respectively). 85 young and 66 healthy older adults had to identify both faces and words separately, and the interference between the two types of stimuli was examined.ResultsAn interference effect was observed for both types of stimuli in both groups. There was more interference on positive faces and words than on negative stimuli.ConclusionsOlder adults had more difficulty than younger in focusing on positive uncued trials, whereas there was no difference across samples on negative uncued trials. |
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| Keywords: | Aging Interference Stroop Faces Words |
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