{"title":"What Causes Age-Related Emotion Recognition Decline?","authors":"T. Ruffman","doi":"10.35248/2329-8847.20.S3.004","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Older adults ≥( 60 years) are worse than young adult<s 3( 0 years) recognizing facial, bodily, auditory and musi cal emotion expressions. I ask what causes these difficulties and run through five theories: (1) a positivity bias, (2) general cognitive decline, (3) a failure to look at the eyes, (4) stimuli with low ecological validity, and (5) brain change. I argue that brain change is the most likely cause, although currently there have still been only a few studies to examine this idea, and further, it is not clear what pattern of brain activation might be examined to differentiate young and older adults.","PeriodicalId":90884,"journal":{"name":"Journal of aging science","volume":"1 1","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of aging science","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.35248/2329-8847.20.S3.004","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Older adults ≥( 60 years) are worse than young adult
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