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- Title
Age-related decline in emotional perspective-taking: Its effect on the late positive potential.
- Authors
Fernandes, Carina; Gonçalves, A. R.; Pasion, R.; Ferreira-Santos, F.; Barbosa, F.; Martins, I. P.; Marques-Teixeira, J.
- Abstract
Aging is associated with changes in cognitive and affective functioning, which likely shape older adults' social cognition. As the neural and psychological mechanisms underlying age differences in social abilities remain poorly understood, the present study aims to extend the research in this field. To this purpose, younger (n = 30; Mage = 26.6), middle-aged (n = 30; Mage = 48.4), and older adults (n = 29; Mage = 64.5) performed a task designed to assess affective perspective-taking, during an EEG recording. In this task, participants decided whether a target facial expression of emotion (FEE) was congruent or incongruent with that of a masked intervener of a previous scenario, which portrayed a neutral or an emotional scene. Older adults showed worse performance in comparison to the other groups. Regarding electrophysiological results, while younger and middle-aged adults showed higher late positive potentials (LPPs) after FEEs congruent with previous scenarios than after incongruent FEEs, older adults had similar amplitudes after both. This insensitivity of older adults' LPPs in differentiating congruent from incongruent emotional context-target FEE may be related to their difficulty in generating information about others' inner states and using that information in social interactions.
- Subjects
MIDDLE-aged persons; PERSPECTIVE taking; YOUNG adults; OLDER people
- Publication
Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience, 2019, Vol 19, Issue 1, p109
- ISSN
1530-7026
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3758/s13415-018-00648-1