Negative Facial Expressions - But Not Visual Scenes - Enhance Human Working Memory in Younger and Older Participants

• Auteurs principaux: Flávia Schechtman Belham (Auteur), Maria Clotilde H. Tavares (Auteur), Corina Satler (Auteur), Ana Garcia (Auteur), Rosângela C. Rodrigues (Auteur), Soraya L. de Sá Canabarro (Auteur), Carlos Tomaz (Auteur)
• Format: Livre
• Publié: Frontiers Media S.A., 2017-09-01T00:00:00Z.
• Sujets: article
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Many studies have investigated the influence of emotion on memory processes across the human lifespan. Some results have shown older adults (OA) performing better with positive stimuli, some with negative items, whereas some found no impact of emotional valence. Here we tested, in two independent st...