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This study aims to investigate how age affects incidental learning of emotional information across young and old adults.

August 12, 2026Psychology and AgingOpen Access

Age differences in incidental learning of emotional information.

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Randomized trial examines how age influences memory for emotional stimuli, revealing distinct retrieval effects based on valence.

This study aims to investigate how age affects incidental learning of emotional information across young and old adults.
Participants included young and old adults viewing streams of object images with emotional valences organized into triplets.
A recognition test and a free recall task were administered after exposure to assess memory performance.
The Visual Statistical Learning (VSL) paradigm was employed to explore memory retrieval differences based on emotional stimuli.
Old adults showed a positivity bias in free recall, recalling more positive stimuli than negative or neutral information.
Both age groups recognized negative stimuli better in the VSL task, despite old adults not exhibiting enhanced performance for positive stimuli.
Overall VSL performance did not significantly differ between young and old participants, indicating consistent extraction of statistical regularities across ages.

Friedman-Oskar et al. (2026) studied this question.

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August 12, 2026Psychology and AgingOpen Access

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Randomized trial examines how age influences memory for emotional stimuli, revealing distinct retrieval effects based on valence.

This study aims to investigate how age affects incidental learning of emotional information across young and old adults.
Participants included young and old adults viewing streams of object images with emotional valences organized into triplets.
A recognition test and a free recall task were administered after exposure to assess memory performance.
The Visual Statistical Learning (VSL) paradigm was employed to explore memory retrieval differences based on emotional stimuli.
Old adults showed a positivity bias in free recall, recalling more positive stimuli than negative or neutral information.
Both age groups recognized negative stimuli better in the VSL task, despite old adults not exhibiting enhanced performance for positive stimuli.
Overall VSL performance did not significantly differ between young and old participants, indicating consistent extraction of statistical regularities across ages.

Friedman-Oskar et al. (2026) studied this question.

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