The Affective Neuroscience of Aging.
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...In addition, ventromedial PFC brain regions involved in emotion regulation are relatively preserved in normal aging, despite marked decline in dorsal and lateral regions (for reviews see Mather, 2012, 2016)....
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...pay greater attention, process, and remember more positive information, and (b) show reduced processing of negative information compared to young adults (Mather, 2016; Reed & Carstensen, 2012)....
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...These are reflected in the so-called age-related positivity effect – i.e., the tendency to enhance positive emotions and reduce negative emotions (Mather, 2016)....
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...The present discussion focuses on personality, sex, and age differences (e.g., Drabant et al., 2009; Mak et al., 2009; Canli et al., 2002b; Domes et al., 2010; Mather, 2016; Katsumi et al., 2017)....
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...In the 1990s, a frontal theory of aging emerged, accounting for older adults’ cognitive deficits by the greater decline in prefrontal than in other brain regions in aging (West 1996)....
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...One overarching potential function of emotions is to trigger behavior change (Frijda & Parrott 2011, Oatley & Johnson-Laird 1987)....
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