Agustí Ana I, Satorres Encarnación, Pitarque Alfonso, Meléndez Juan C
Developmental Psychology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Valencia (Spain), Av. Blasco Ibañez 21, Valencia 46010, Spain.
Department of Methodology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Valencia (Spain), Av. Blasco Ibañez 21, Valencia 46010, Spain.
Conscious Cogn. 2017 Aug;53:99-104. doi: 10.1016/j.concog.2017.06.010. Epub 2017 Jun 24.
Given the contradictions of previous studies on the changes in attentional responses produced in aging a Stroop emotional task was proposed to compare young and older adults to words or faces with an emotional valence.
The words happy or sad were superimposed on faces that express the emotion of happiness or sadness. The emotion expressed by the word and the face could agree or not (cued and uncued trials, respectively). 85 young and 66 healthy older adults had to identify both faces and words separately, and the interference between the two types of stimuli was examined.
An interference effect was observed for both types of stimuli in both groups. There was more interference on positive faces and words than on negative stimuli.
Older adults had more difficulty than younger in focusing on positive uncued trials, whereas there was no difference across samples on negative uncued trials.
鉴于先前关于衰老过程中产生的注意力反应变化的研究存在矛盾，提出了一项斯特鲁普情绪任务，以比较年轻人和老年人对具有情绪效价的单词或面孔的反应。
将“快乐”或“悲伤”的单词叠加在表达快乐或悲伤情绪的面孔上。单词和面孔所表达的情绪可能一致，也可能不一致（分别为线索试验和非线索试验）。85名年轻人和66名健康老年人必须分别识别面孔和单词，并检查两种刺激之间的干扰。
两组中两种类型的刺激均观察到干扰效应。对积极面孔和单词的干扰比对消极刺激的干扰更大。
在非线索试验中，老年人比年轻人更难专注于积极刺激，而在消极非线索试验中，不同样本之间没有差异。
