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  • Gerontology

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  • Aging is associated with a decline in identifying emotional expressions.
  • Traditional emotion recognition studies rely on lexical labeling, which differs from real-life emotional cue processing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate emotion recognition abilities across the lifespan using both visual categorization and lexical labeling tasks.
  • To compare emotion recognition performance between young and older adults in ecologically valid and traditional settings.

Main Methods:

  • Employed two tasks: an emotion sorting task (visual categorization) and a traditional labeling task (lexical categorization).
  • Compared performance of young adults (mean age 23.8) and older adults (mean age 71.9) on both tasks.

Main Results:

  • Older adults were less accurate than younger adults in the labeling task, especially for sadness, fear, anger, and contempt.
  • Older adults demonstrated greater difficulty than younger adults in distinguishing between distinct emotional meanings in the categorization task.
  • Both tasks indicated a decline in emotion recognition with age.

Conclusions:

  • Aging impacts emotion recognition, with older adults showing deficits in both labeling and conceptual categorization of emotions.
  • Future research should explore potential changes in the conceptual knowledge of emotions in older adults, rather than solely focusing on perceptual deficits.