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¹Faculty of Education, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, Canada.

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Cognitive Psychology
Neuroscience of Aging

Background:

Adult aging often impairs recognition of negative facial expressions (fear, anger) but spares positive (happiness) and disgust.
Previous eye-tracking studies suggest age-related differences in visual scanning patterns correlate with emotion recognition deficits.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate age-related differences in visual attention and their impact on facial emotion recognition using the Moving Window Technique (MWT).
To explore the relationship between specific facial feature exploration and the accuracy/speed of emotion recognition in older adults.

Main Methods:

Utilized the Moving Window Technique (MWT) to directly measure visual attention by restricting the field of view.
Compared visual exploration patterns and emotion recognition accuracy between young and older adult groups.

Main Results:

Both age groups showed a bias towards exploring the mouth region.
Older adults exhibited reduced attention to the left eye and increased attention to the mouth and nose compared to younger adults.
Older adults were most impaired in recognizing disgusted expressions, and greater mouth exploration correlated with faster recognition of disgust and happiness.

Conclusions:

Aging involves both attentional differences and perceptual deficits that contribute to reduced facial emotion recognition accuracy.
Mouth exploration may play a compensatory role in recognizing certain facial expressions in older adults.