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Aging and motivated cognition: the positivity effect in attention and memory
- M. Mather, L. Carstensen
- Psychology, Medicine
- Trends in Cognitive Sciences
- 1 October 2005
As people get older, they experience fewer negative emotions. Strategic processes in older adults' emotional attention and memory might play a role in this variation with age. Older adults show more… Expand
Aging and Attentional Biases for Emotional Faces
- M. Mather, L. Carstensen
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychological science
- 1 September 2003
We examined age differences in attention to and memory for faces expressing sadness, anger, and happiness. Participants saw a pair of faces, one emotional and one neutral, and then a dot probe that… Expand
Aging and emotional memory: the forgettable nature of negative images for older adults.
- S. Charles, M. Mather, L. Carstensen
- Psychology, Medicine
- Journal of experimental psychology. General
- 1 June 2003
Two studies examined age differences in recall and recognition memory for positive, negative, and neutral stimuli. In Study 1, younger, middle-aged, and older adults were shown images on a computer… Expand
Goal-directed memory: the role of cognitive control in older adults' emotional memory.
- M. Mather, Marisa Knight
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychology and aging
- 1 December 2005
The present study revealed that older adults recruit cognitive control processes to strengthen positive and diminish negative information in memory. In Experiment 1, older adults engaged in more… Expand
Arousal-Biased Competition in Perception and Memory
- M. Mather, M. R. Sutherland
- Psychology, Medicine
- Perspectives on psychological science : a journal…
- 1 March 2011
Our everyday surroundings besiege us with information. The battle is for a share of our limited attention and memory, with the brain selecting the winners and discarding the losers. Previous research… Expand
Emotional Arousal and Memory Binding: An Object-Based Framework
- M. Mather
- Psychology, Medicine
- Perspectives on psychological science : a journal…
- 1 March 2007
Binding various features of an event together and maintaining these connections in memory is an essential component of episodic memories. Previous theories make contradictory predictions about the… Expand
Amygdala Responses to Emotionally Valenced Stimuli in Older and Younger Adults
- M. Mather, T. Canli, +5 authors L. Carstensen
- Psychology, Medicine
- Psychological science
- 1 April 2004
As they age, adults experience less negative emotion, come to pay less attention to negative than to positive emotional stimuli, and become less likely to remember negative than positive emotional… Expand
Aging and goal-directed emotional attention: distraction reverses emotional biases.
- Marisa Knight, Travis L. Seymour, Joshua T. Gaunt, C. Baker, K. Nesmith, M. Mather
- Psychology, Medicine
- Emotion
- 1 November 2007
Previous findings reveal that older adults favor positive over negative stimuli in both memory and attention (for a review, see Mather & Carstensen, 2005). This study used eye tracking to investigate… Expand
Angry faces get noticed quickly: threat detection is not impaired among older adults.
- M. Mather, Marisa Knight
- Medicine, Psychology
- The journals of gerontology. Series B…
- 2006
Previous studies have found that younger adults detect threatening stimuli more quickly than other types of stimuli. This study examined whether older adults also show this adaptive threat-detection… Expand
Evaluating characteristics of false memories: Remember/know judgments and memory characteristics questionnaire compared
- M. Mather, L. A. Henkel, M. Johnson
- Psychology, Medicine
- Memory & cognition
- 1 November 1997
Subjects hearing a list of associates to a nonpresented lure word later often claim to have heard the lure (Deese, 1959; Roediger & McDermott, 1995). To examine the characteristics of such false… Expand