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NEUROPSYCHOLOGY
Volume 19, Issue 6, Pages 739-749Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0894-4105.19.6.739
Keywords
visual scanning; frontal eye fields; emotion identification; aging
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- NIA NIH HHS [R01 AG15361-4524-5, R01 AG15361] Funding Source: Medline
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Emotion identification appears to decline with age, and deficient visual scanning may contribute to this effect. Eye movements of 20 older adults (OAs) and 20 younger adults (YAs) with normal saccades were recorded while viewing facial expressions. OAs made fewer fixations overall, and they made it higher proportion of fixations, to the lower halves of faces. Topographical distribution of fixations predicted better OA accuracy for identifying disgust than other negative emotions. Impaired OA accuracy for fear and anger was specific to vision, with normal identification of these emotions in the auditory domain. Age-related frontal-lobe atrophy may affect the integrity of the frontal eye fields, with Consequent abnormalities that contribute to difficulties in identifying certain emotions.
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