Socioemotional selectivity theory: The role of perceived endings in human motivation

LL Carstensen - The Gerontologist, 2021‏ - academic.oup.com
Socioemotional selectivity theory (SST) is a theory of life-span development grounded in the
uniquely human ability to monitor time. SST maintains that the approach of endings …

The power of negative and positive episodic memories

SE Williams, JH Ford, EA Kensinger - Cognitive, Affective, & Behavioral …, 2022‏ - Springer
The power of episodic memories is that they bring a past moment into the present, providing
opportunities for us to recall details of the experiences, reframe or update the memory, and …

Age advantages in emotional experience persist even under threat from the COVID-19 pandemic

LL Carstensen, YZ Shavit… - Psychological …, 2020‏ - journals.sagepub.com
The COVID-19 pandemic is creating unprecedented, sustained, and unavoidable stress for
the entire population, and older people are facing particularly heightened risk of contracting …

What do we know about aging and emotion regulation?

DM Isaacowitz - Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2022‏ - journals.sagepub.com
Older adults report surprisingly positive affective experience. The idea that older adults are
better at emotion regulation has emerged as an intuitively appealing explanation for why …

Mnemonic similarity task: A tool for assessing hippocampal integrity

SM Stark, CB Kirwan, CEL Stark - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2019‏ - cell.com
The hippocampus is critical for learning and memory, relying in part on pattern separation
processes supported by the dentate gyrus (DG) to prevent interference from overlap** …

[HTML][HTML] The Cambridge Centre for Ageing and Neuroscience (Cam-CAN) data repository: Structural and functional MRI, MEG, and cognitive data from a cross …

JR Taylor, N Williams, R Cusack, T Auer, MA Shafto… - neuroimage, 2017‏ - Elsevier
This paper describes the data repository for the Cambridge Centre for Ageing and
Neuroscience (Cam-CAN) initial study cohort. The Cam-CAN Stage 2 repository contains …

Motivation and cognitive control: from behavior to neural mechanism

M Botvinick, T Braver - Annual review of psychology, 2015‏ - annualreviews.org
Research on cognitive control and executive function has long recognized the relevance of
motivational factors. Recently, however, the topic has come increasingly to center stage, with …

Meta-analysis of the age-related positivity effect: age differences in preferences for positive over negative information.

AE Reed, L Chan, JA Mikels - Psychology and aging, 2014‏ - psycnet.apa.org
In contrast to long-held axioms of old age as a time of “doom and gloom,” mounting
evidence indicates an age-related positivity effect in attention and memory. However …

Emotion regulation: taking stock and moving forward.

JJ Gross - Emotion, 2013‏ - psycnet.apa.org
The field of emotion regulation has now come of age. However, enthusiasm for the topic
continues to outstrip conceptual clarity. In this article, I review the state of the field. I do this …

[HTML][HTML] Neural correlates of emotion-attention interactions: From perception, learning, and memory to social cognition, individual differences, and training …

F Dolcos, Y Katsumi, M Moore, N Berggren… - Neuroscience & …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Due to their ability to capture attention, emotional stimuli tend to benefit from enhanced
perceptual processing, which can be helpful when such stimuli are task-relevant but …