TY - GEN
T1 - Are Elderly Less Responsive to Emotional Stimuli? An EEG-based Study across Pleasant, Unpleasant and Neutral Greek Words
AU - Tepelena, Ioanna
AU - Frantzidis, Christos
AU - Salvari, Vasiliki
AU - Hadjileontiadis, Leontios
AU - Bamidis, Panagiotis
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 IEEE.
PY - 2017/11/10
Y1 - 2017/11/10
N2 - A plethora of studies has shown that working memory, processing speed and fluid intelligence are diminished with aging. However, emotional processing remains relatively stable even though emotional processing alters through aging. Neurophysiological studies have employed emotional stimuli to investigate age differences through Event Related Potentials (ERPs). The present approach used affective visual word stimuli derived from the Greek language. Healthy young and elderly volunteers passively viewed the stimuli which were divided into pleasant, unpleasant and neutral. The study shows differential processing of emotional stimuli in comparison to the neutral in terms of temporal resolution (latency) and activation of neuronal assembles (amplitude). The age factor interacts with emotional dimension through a complex pattern while laterality differences also occur. Our results suggest a difference in the way emotional stimuli are processed during aging through functional compensation.
AB - A plethora of studies has shown that working memory, processing speed and fluid intelligence are diminished with aging. However, emotional processing remains relatively stable even though emotional processing alters through aging. Neurophysiological studies have employed emotional stimuli to investigate age differences through Event Related Potentials (ERPs). The present approach used affective visual word stimuli derived from the Greek language. Healthy young and elderly volunteers passively viewed the stimuli which were divided into pleasant, unpleasant and neutral. The study shows differential processing of emotional stimuli in comparison to the neutral in terms of temporal resolution (latency) and activation of neuronal assembles (amplitude). The age factor interacts with emotional dimension through a complex pattern while laterality differences also occur. Our results suggest a difference in the way emotional stimuli are processed during aging through functional compensation.
KW - Age differences
KW - Emotional Proccessing
KW - Event Related Potentials
KW - Functional Compensation
KW - Valence
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85040357005&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/CBMS.2017.167
DO - 10.1109/CBMS.2017.167
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85040357005
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems
SP - 469
EP - 474
BT - Proceedings - 2017 IEEE 30th International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, CBMS 2017
A2 - Bamidis, Panagiotis D.
A2 - Konstantinidis, Stathis Th.
A2 - Rodrigues, Pedro Pereira
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 30th IEEE International Symposium on Computer-Based Medical Systems, CBMS 2017
Y2 - 22 June 2017 through 24 June 2017
ER -