Older adults detect happy facial expressions less rapidly

Previous experimental psychology studies based on visual search paradigms have reported that young adults detect emotional facial expressions more rapidly than emotionally neutral expressions. However, it remains unclear whether this holds in older adults. We investigated this by comparing the abili...

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Main Authors: Akie Saito, Wataru Sato, Sakiko Yoshikawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Royal Society 2020-03-01
Series:Royal Society Open Science
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Online Access:https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsos.191715