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SUBMITTER: Ziaei M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6105189 | biostudies-other | 2018 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience 20181001 5
Age-related declines in attention and working memory (WM) are well documented and may be worsened by the occurrence of distracting information. Emotionally valenced stimuli may have particularly strong distracting effects on cognition. We investigated age-related differences in emotional distraction using task-fMRI. WM performance in older adults was lower for emotional compared with neutral distractors, suggesting a disproportional impairment elicited by emotional task-irrelevant information. C ...[more]