The Effect of Stimulus Valence on Lexical Retrieval in Younger and Older Adults.

Conclusions: Emotional arousal of pictures appears to impact naming latency in younger and older adults. We hypothesize that the increase in naming latency for emotional stimuli is the result of a necessary disengagement of attentional resources from the emotional images prior to completion of the naming task. We propose that this process may affect older adults disproportionately due to a decline in attentional resources as part of normal aging, combined with a greater attentional preference for emotional stimuli. PMID: 28632840 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR)

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