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SUBMITTER: Daley RT
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8561439 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Daley Ryan T RT Bowen Holly J HJ Fields Eric C EC Parisi Katelyn R KR Gutchess Angela A Kensinger Elizabeth A EA
Social cognitive and affective neuroscience 20200601 4
Emotion and self-referential information can both enhance memory, but whether they do so via common mechanisms across the adult lifespan remains underexplored. To address this gap, the current study directly compared, within the same fMRI paradigm, the encoding of emotionally salient and self-referential information in older adults and younger adults. Behavioral results replicated the typical patterns of better memory for emotional than neutral information and for self-referential than non-self- ...[more]