Department of Psychology, University of Toronto Toronto, ON, Canada ; Rotman Research Institute of Baycrest Centre Toronto, ON, Canada.
Front Psychol. 2012 Oct 16;3:399. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00399. eCollection 2012.
Positive mood states are believed to broaden the focus of attention in younger adults, but it is unclear whether the same is true for older adults. Here we examined one consequence of broader attention that has been shown in young adults: that memory for distraction is greater for those in a positive mood. In the current study, positive and neutral moods were induced in older adults (M = 67.9) prior to a 1-back task in which participants were instructed to attend to relevant pictures and ignore distracting words. Following a 10-min filled interval, participants performed a word fragment completion task that tested implicit memory for the distracting words from the 1-back task. Older adults in the positive mood group showed greater implicit memory for previous distraction compared to those in the neutral mood group. These findings suggest that affect influences the ability to regulate attention in a similar manner for younger and older adults.
积极的情绪状态被认为可以拓宽年轻人的注意力范围，但对于老年人来说是否同样如此尚不清楚。在这里，我们研究了在年轻人中已经显示出的更广泛注意力的一个后果：积极情绪的人对分心的记忆更大。在当前的研究中，在进行 1 -back 任务之前，先诱导老年人（M=67.9）进入积极和中性情绪状态，在该任务中，参与者被指示注意相关图片并忽略干扰单词。在 10 分钟的填充间隔之后，参与者执行单词片段完成任务，以测试对 1-back 任务中干扰单词的内隐记忆。与中性情绪组相比，积极情绪组的老年人对先前分心的内隐记忆更强。这些发现表明，情绪以类似的方式影响年轻人和老年人调节注意力的能力。
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