Department of Psychology, Boston College, McGuinn Hall, 140 Commonwealth Ave., Chestnut Hill, MA 02467, USA.
Psychol Aging. 2010 Mar;25(1):239-45. doi: 10.1037/a0018297.
Using a rapid serial visual presentation task, the authors examined how the emotional valence of a word affected young and older adults' abilities to detect another word that closely followed it in temporal proximity. Both age groups detected neutral words better when such words followed a positive or negative arousing word rather than a neutral arousing word. These results suggest that emotion influences attention in a similar fashion for young and older adults. Despite evidence that older adults can sometimes show a "positivity effect" in memory, we found no evidence of increased attention toward positive words for older adults.
采用快速系列视觉呈现任务，作者研究了一个词的情绪效价如何影响年轻和年长成人对紧随其后的另一个词的察觉能力。当紧随一个积极或消极唤醒词的是一个中性词而不是中性唤醒词时，两个年龄组都能更好地察觉中性词。这些结果表明，情绪对年轻人和老年人的注意力有类似的影响。尽管有证据表明老年人在记忆中有时会表现出“正性效应”，但我们没有发现老年人对积极词汇的注意力增加的证据。
