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Age- related memory change for emotional faces: are older adults more prone to forget angry faces?

Creator:

Hwee, Jennifer, Burros, Alison, MacKay, Kallie, and Lien, Mei-Ching

Abstract:

Previous studies have suggested that negatively valenced faces (e.g., angry faces) automatically capture attention away from faces with other emotional valences (e.g., happy faces and neutral faces). The present study evaluated two experiments with age-related differences: the first assessed recognition memory for pictures of faces and how it is modulated...

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Poster
Learning to attend: the influence of gain vs. loss on attention capture for younger and older adults

Creator:

Araujo, Derek S., Naylor, Jamie S., and Lien, Mei-Ching

Abstract:

Previous studies have shown that both younger and older adults exhibit similar brain activity while anticipating monetary gain but older adults exhibit less brain activity comparing to younger adults while anticipating monetary loss. In Anderson et al.’s (2011) study, they found that visual search was slower with a salient, task-irrelevant...

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Poster
Visual Attention and Working Memory: Are Low Memory Capacity Individuals More Easily Distracted?

Creator:

Naylor, Jamie, Williams, Reginald, and Lien, Mei-Ching

Abstract:

Visual working memory (VWM) allows us temporarily hold images in our minds and manipulate them. As an example, you can remember a face you just saw, or try to imagine how a room would look with a different arrangement of furniture. Previous studies have shown that individuals with low VWM...

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Poster