Bridging Inferencing, Emotional Inferencing and Emotional Perspective-taking in Younger and Older Adults | Synapse
March 28, 2026Open Access
Bridging Inferencing, Emotional Inferencing and Emotional Perspective-taking in Younger and Older Adults
Key Points
This study aims to explore how bridging inference, emotional inference, and emotional perspective-taking relate to cognitive resources in different age groups.
Compared younger and older adults
Assessed skills in bridging inference
Evaluated emotional inference and perspective-taking
Analyzed cognitive resource usage
Younger and older adults show similar reliance on cognitive resources for emotional inference
Bridging inference demonstrates varied impacts based on age
Emotional perspective-taking is influenced by cognitive resource availability
Abstract
This study investigates the extent to which bridging inference, emotional inference and emotional perspective-taking might draw on the same cognitive resources, in younger and older adults.