Emotional Feedback Affects Age-Related Declines in Cognitive Set Shifting

摘要: Trials to Reach First and Fifth Concept o Trials to First Concept: Main effect of age with older adults requiring more learning trials than younger adults to regardless of condition (p<. 001). o Trials to Fifth Concept: Marginally significant 3-way interaction (p=. 08). o No saliency or valence effects for younger adults. o Interaction for older adults (p=. 02) characterized by faster learning in the positive emotional condition than in the negative emotional (p=. 03), positive logical (p=. 02), and negative logical conditions (p=. 1).