scholarly journals Investigating Age-Related Neural Compensation During Emotion Perception Using Electroencephalography

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 61
Author(s):  
Tao Yang ◽  
Caroline Di Bernardi Luft ◽  
Pei Sun ◽  
Joydeep Bhattacharya ◽  
Michael J. Banissy
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Emotion Processing ◽  
Emotion Perception ◽  
Event Related Potentials ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Stimulus Onset ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Related Potentials ◽  
Neural Compensation ◽  
Age Related Changes

Previous research suggests declines in emotion perception in older as compared to younger adults, but the underlying neural mechanisms remain unclear. Here, we address this by investigating how “face-age” and “face emotion intensity” affect both younger and older participants’ behavioural and neural responses using event-related potentials (ERPs). Sixteen young and fifteen older adults viewed and judged the emotion type of facial images with old or young face-age and with high- or low- emotion intensities while EEG was recorded. The ERP results revealed that young and older participants exhibited significant ERP differences in two neural clusters: the left frontal and centromedial regions (100–200 ms stimulus onset) and frontal region (250–900 ms) when perceiving neutral faces. Older participants also exhibited significantly higher ERPs within these two neural clusters during anger and happiness emotion perceptual tasks. However, while this pattern of activity supported neutral emotion processing, it was not sufficient to support the effective processing of facial expressions of anger and happiness as older adults showed reductions in performance when perceiving these emotions. These age-related changes are consistent with theoretical models of age-related changes in neurocognitive abilities and may reflect a general age-related cognitive neural compensation in older adults, rather than a specific emotion-processing neural compensation.

scholarly journals Electrophysiological differences in older and younger adults’ anaphoric but not cataphoric pronoun processing in the absence of age-related behavioural slowdown

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Seçkin Arslan ◽  
Katerina Palasis ◽  
Fanny Meunier
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Short Term Memory ◽  
Memory Span ◽  
Event Related Potentials ◽  
Brain Regions ◽  
Younger Adults ◽  
Behavioural Responses ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Related Potentials ◽  
Anterior Negativity

Abstract This study reports on an event-related potentials experiment to uncover whether per-millisecond electrophysiological brain activity and analogous behavioural responses are age-sensitive when comprehending anaphoric (referent-first) and cataphoric (pronoun-first) pronouns. Two groups of French speakers were recruited (young n = 18; aged 19–35 and older adults n = 15; aged 57–88) to read sentences where the anaphoric/cataphoric pronouns and their potential referents either matched or mismatched in gender. Our findings indicate that (1) the older adults were not less accurate or slower in their behavioural responses to the mismatches than the younger adults, (2) both anaphoric and cataphoric conditions evoked a central/parietally distributed P600 component with similar timing and amplitude in both the groups. Importantly, mean amplitudes of the P600 effect were modulated by verbal short-term memory span in the older adults but not in the younger adults, (3) nevertheless, the older but not the younger adults displayed an additional anterior negativity emerging on the frontal regions in response to the anaphoric mismatches. These results suggest that pronoun processing is resilient in healthy ageing individuals, but that functional recruitment of additional brain regions, evidenced with the anterior negativity, compensates for increased processing demands in the older adults’ anaphora processing.

scholarly journals Age-related changes in emotional face processing across childhood and into young adulthood: Evidence from event-related potentials

2015 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Annmarie MacNamara ◽  
Alvaro Vergés ◽  
Autumn Kujawa ◽  
Kate D. Fitzgerald ◽  
Christopher S. Monk ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Young Adulthood ◽  
Face Processing ◽  
Event Related Potentials ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Emotional Face Processing ◽  
Related Potentials ◽  
Emotional Face ◽  
Age Related Changes

Age-related changes in auditory event-related potentials

1980 ◽  
Vol 49 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 266-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adolf Pfefferbaum ◽  
Judith M Ford ◽  
Walton T Roth ◽  
Bert S Kopell
Keyword(s):  
Event Related Potentials ◽  
Auditory Event ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Related Potentials ◽  
Auditory Event Related Potentials ◽  
Age Related Changes

scholarly journals Temporal Dynamics of Event-Related Potentials during Inhibitory Control Characterize Age-Related Neural Compensation

Symmetry ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 2323
Author(s):  
Elizabeth R. Paitel ◽  
Kristy A. Nielson
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Inhibitory Control ◽  
Right Hemisphere ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Event Related Potentials ◽  
Conflict Monitoring ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Related Potentials ◽  
Spatio Temporal

Aging is accompanied by frontal lobe and non-dominant hemisphere recruitment that supports executive functioning, such as inhibitory control, which is crucial to all cognitive functions. However, the spatio-temporal sequence of processing underlying successful inhibition and how it changes with age is understudied. Thus, we capitalized on the temporal precision of event-related potentials (ERPs) to assess the functional lateralization of N200 (conflict monitoring) and P300 (inhibitory performance evaluation) in young and healthy older adults during comparably performed successful stop-signal inhibition. We additionally used temporal principal components analysis (PCA) to further interrogate the continuous spatio-temporal dynamics underlying N200 and P300 activation for each group. Young adults demonstrated left hemisphere-dominant N200, while older adults demonstrated overall larger amplitudes and right hemisphere dominance. N200 activation was explained by a single PCA factor in both age groups, but with a more anterior scalp distribution in older adults. The P300 amplitudes were larger in the right hemisphere in young, but bilateral in old, with old larger than young in the left hemisphere. P300 was also explained by a single factor in young adults but by two factors in older adults, including distinct parieto-occipital and anterior activation. These findings highlight the differential functional asymmetries of conflict monitoring (N200) and inhibitory evaluation and adaptation (P300) processes and further illuminate unique age-related spatio-temporal recruitment patterns. Older adults demonstrated lateralized recruitment during conflict processing and bilateral recruitment during evaluation and adaptation, with anterior recruitment common to both processes. These fine-grained analyses are critically important for more precise understanding of age-related compensatory activation.

scholarly journals Temporal Dynamics of Event-Related Potentials During Inhibitory Control Characterize Age-Related Neural Compensation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth R Paitel ◽  
Kristy A Nielson
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Left Hemisphere ◽  
Inhibitory Control ◽  
Response Inhibition ◽  
Temporal Dynamics ◽  
Event Related Potentials ◽  
Conflict Monitoring ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Related Potentials ◽  
Spatio Temporal

Aging is accompanied by frontal lobe and non-dominant hemisphere recruitment that supports executive functioning, such as inhibitory control, which is crucial to all cognitive functions. Yet, the spatio-temporal sequence of processing underlying successful inhibition and how it changes with age is understudied. Thus, we assessed N200 (conflict monitoring) and P300 (response inhibition, performance evaluation) event-related potentials (ERPs) in young and healthy older adults during comparably performed successful stop-signal inhibition. We additionally interrogated the continuous spatio-temporal dynamics of N200- and P300-related activation within each group. Young adults had left hemisphere dominant N200, while older adults had overall larger amplitudes and right hemisphere dominance. N200 activation was biphasic in both groups but differed in scalp topography. P300 also differed, with larger right amplitudes in young, but bilateral amplitudes in old, with old larger than young in the left hemisphere. P300 was characterized by an early parieto-occipital peak in both groups, followed by a parietal slow wave only in older adults. A temporally similar but topographically different final wave followed in both groups that showed anterior recruitment in older adults. These findings illuminate differential age-related spatio-temporal recruitment patterns for conflict monitoring and response inhibition that are critically important for understanding age-related compensatory activation.

scholarly journals Older Adults Automatically Detect Age of Older Adults’ Photographs: A Visual Mismatch Negativity Study

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Petra Csizmadia ◽  
Bela Petro ◽  
Petia Kojouharova ◽  
Zsófia Anna Gaál ◽  
Katalin Scheiling ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Mismatch Negativity ◽  
Event Related Potentials ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Regular Sequence ◽  
Bias Effect ◽  
Visual Mismatch Negativity ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Related Potentials ◽  
And Gender

The human face is one of the most frequently used stimuli in vMMN (visual mismatch negativity) research. Previous studies showed that vMMN is sensitive to facial emotions and gender, but investigations of age-related vMMN differences are relatively rare. The aim of this study was to investigate whether the models’ age in photographs were automatically detected, even if the photographs were not parts of the ongoing task. Furthermore, we investigated age-related differences, and the possibility of different sensitivity to photographs of participants’ own versus different ages. We recorded event-related potentials (ERPs) to faces of young and old models in younger (N = 20; 18–30 years) and older groups (N = 20; 60–75 years). The faces appeared around the location of the field of a tracking task. In sequences the young or the old faces were either frequent (standards) or infrequent (deviants). According to the results, a regular sequence of models’ age is automatically registered, and faces violating the models’ age elicited the vMMN component. However, in this study vMMN emerged only in the older group to same-age deviants. This finding is explained by the less effective inhibition of irrelevant stimuli in the elderly, and corresponds to own-age bias effect of recognition studies.

Rapid Mental Fatigue Amplifies Age-Related Attentional Deficits

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (3) ◽  
pp. 215-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edmund Wascher ◽  
Stephan Getzmann
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Executive Control ◽  
Event Related Potentials ◽  
Mental Fatigue ◽  
Time On Task ◽  
Attentional Deficits ◽  
Performance Loss ◽  
Control Functions ◽  
Age Related ◽  
Related Potentials

Deficient information processing with increasing age has been assigned to reduced efficiency in frontal executive control functions. Dopamine has been assumed to play a central role for this decline. Dopamine, however, is also essential for the maintenance of motivation for a longer period of time and is therefore a core factor for mental fatigue. Combining these two findings, we tested to what degree older adults are more prone to performance loss due to increasing time on task than younger adults. Twelve younger and twelve older participants performed an inhibition of return task for 80 min. Performance declined in the older participants but not in the young. Event-related potentials (ERPs) of the EEG, however, showed distinct changes with time on task primarily for young participants. The dissociation between behavioral and ERP results indicates that changes in ERPs of the young participants could reflect adaptations to the task rather than fatigue. This is evident from very distinct changes of the posterior N1 component in this group. The failing (or rather unspecific) adaptation to the task in older adults might have been a consequence of lacking frontal executive control functions reflected in a massive reduction of the N2 component of the ERP, relative to the young participants.

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