Visual scanning patterns and executive function in relation to facial emotion recognition in aging

摘要: ABSTRACT Objective: The ability to perceive facial emotion varies with age. Relative younger adults (YA), older (OA) are less accurate at identifying fear, anger, and sadness, more disgust. Because different emotions conveyed by parts of the face, changes in visual scanning patterns may account for age-related variability. We investigated relation between recognition emotions. Additionally, as frontal-lobe age affect recognition, we examined correlations parameters performance on executive function tests. Methods: recorded eye movements from 16 OA (mean 68.9) YA 19.2) while they categorized expressions non-face control images (landscapes), administered standard tests function. Results: were than fear (p < .05, r = .44) disgust (p < .0...