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  • Cognitive psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Gerontology

Background:

  • Older adults (OA) exhibit lower accuracy than younger adults (YA) in multiple-choice emotion recognition tasks.
  • However, OA show comparable accuracy to YA when judging psychological attributes via rating tasks.
  • This suggests potential underestimation of OA emotion recognition abilities due to task cognitive demands.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if multiple-choice task cognitive demands lead to underestimating older adults' emotion recognition.
  • To determine if reduced accuracy in older adults reflects age-related perceptual dedifferentiation.

Main Methods:

  • Participants (younger and older adults) judged facial emotion expressions using two tasks: multiple-choice and independent rating scales.
  • Accuracy scores and an emotion differentiation index were computed for both age groups.

Main Results:

  • Age-related differences in emotion recognition persisted even with independent rating scales, refuting the cognitive demand hypothesis.
  • The emotion differentiation index supported the hypothesis that age differences in accuracy are linked to perceptual dedifferentiation.

Conclusions:

  • Lower emotion recognition accuracy in older adults is not solely due to multiple-choice task demands.
  • Findings align with evidence of perceptual dedifferentiation in older adults, affecting face perception and neural specificity.