Browsing by Subject "Older people -- Psychology"

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Executive Function, the Positivity Effect and Error-Related Negativity: A Novel Perspective on Cognitive Aging

Vandenbark, Sonia L. (2013)

The purpose of the present research was to investigate cognitive aging in the context of the Socioemotional Selectivity Theory (Carstensen, 1992), in order to determine the role of executive function in the manifestation ...
The Good Ol’ Days: Examining the Relationship Between Cognitive Decline and the Positivity Bias in Healthy Aging

Wasserman, Sophie (2013)

Previous research has found that older adults exhibit significant decreases in executive functioning, such as diminished inhibition of irrelevant information and reduced amplitude of the error-related negativity (ERN), as ...
The Relationship Between Cognitive Decline and Emotion Regulation in Older Adults

Kornetsky, Emma (2013)

While prior literature has established improved emotion regulation and impaired cognitive control in older adults, this study sought to understand the relationship between these variables. Older adults typically show ...

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