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April 28, 2022Cognition & Emotion

“When did you see it?” The effect of emotional valence on temporal source memory in aging

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ICIrene CeccatoPMPasquale La MalvaACAdolfo Di Crosta

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Overview

Experimental study reveals emotional valence alters temporal source memory in older adults, suggesting age-related shifts toward positive memory framing.

Key Points

  • Investigate the impact of emotional valence on temporal source memory across different age cohorts.
  • Enrolled 75 participants across three age groups: 25 younger adults (ages 18–35), 25 older adults (ages 65–74), and 25 oldest-old adults (ages 75–84).
  • Presented emotional pictures across three separate sessions spaced by one-day rest intervals.
  • Tested temporal source memory in a fourth session by asking participants to indicate in which session (1, 2, or 3) each image had appeared.
  • Oldest-old adults (ages 75–84) remembered negative pictures as occurring more distant in time and positive pictures as more recent than actual presentation, relative to neutral pictures.
  • Older adults (ages 65–74) displayed the same directional distortion to a lesser extent.
  • Younger adults' temporal placement of stimuli was unaffected by emotional valence.

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Ceccato et al. (2022) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a1606d540872a98d8b561fdhttps://doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2022.2069683
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