Kensinger Elizabeth A
Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA.
Memory. 2009 Feb;17(2):208-19. doi: 10.1080/09658210802221425.
As adults age, they tend to have problems remembering the details of events and the contexts in which events occurred. This review presents evidence that emotion can enhance older adults' abilities to remember episodic detail. Older adults are more likely to remember affective details of an event (e.g., whether something was good or bad, or how an event made them feel) than they are to remember non-affective details, and they remember more details of emotional events than of non-emotional ones. Moreover, in some instances, emotion appears to narrow the age gap in memory performance. It may be that memory for affective context, or for emotional events, relies on cognitive and neural processes that are relatively preserved in older adults.
随着成年人年龄的增长，他们往往难以记住事件的细节以及事件发生的背景。这篇综述提供了证据表明情绪可以增强老年人记住情景细节的能力。与记住非情感细节相比，老年人更有可能记住事件的情感细节（例如，某件事是好是坏，或者一个事件让他们有何感受），而且他们记住情感事件的细节比非情感事件的更多。此外，在某些情况下，情绪似乎缩小了记忆表现方面的年龄差距。可能是对情感背景或情感事件的记忆依赖于老年人相对保留的认知和神经过程。
