Dataset: Age effects in emotional memory and associated eye movements

Mnemonic-enhanced memory has been observed for negative events. Here, we investigate its association with spatiotemporal attention, consolidation, and age. An ingenious method to study visual attention for emotional stimuli is eye tracking. Twenty young adults and twenty-one older adults encoded stimuli depicting neutral faces, angry faces, and houses while eye movements were recorded. The encoding phase was followed by an immediate and delayed (48 h) recognition assessment. Linear mixed model analyses of recognition performance with group, emotion, and their interaction as fixed effects revealed increased performance for angry compared to neutral faces in the young adults group only. Furthermore, young adults showed enhanced memory for angry faces compared to older adults. This effect was associated with a shorter fixation duration for angry faces compared to neutral faces in the older adults group. Furthermore, the results revealed that total fixation duration was a strong predictor f..., Participants Forty-one subjects participated in our study. They were recruited by advertisements for participation in an eye-tracker memory experiment. Participants did not receive financial compensation for their participation. Inclusion criteria consisted of (1) 18–30-year age range (young adults group) or 50–90-year age range (older adults group) and (2) an MMSE score above 25. The young adults and older adults group consisted of 20 participants [7 males (35%); mean age ± SD = 22 ± 2 years, range 18–29] and 21 participants [9 males (43%); mean age ± SD = 69 ± 7 years, range 53–87], respectively. One participant from the older adults group was not included in the eye movement analysis due to technical issues. Participants completed the Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination III (ACE-III), which includes the Mini–Mental State Examination (MMSE). All participants had an ACE-III score above 71. Eye Tracker and Eye Movement Recordings Eye movement data were collected during the encoding pha...,  All analyses were performed in SPSS.针对负性事件的记忆增强效应已被观测到。本研究旨在探讨该效应与时空注意、记忆巩固以及年龄的关联。研究情绪刺激视觉注意的巧妙方法之一为眼动追踪技术。20名青年被试与21名老年被试在眼动记录下，对包含中性面孔、愤怒面孔与房屋的刺激材料进行编码。编码阶段结束后，即刻开展再认测试，并在48小时后进行延迟再认评估。以组别、情绪类型及其交互作用为固定效应的线性混合模型分析结果显示，仅青年被试组对愤怒面孔的再认成绩显著优于中性面孔。此外，相较于老年被试组，青年被试组对愤怒面孔的记忆表现更优。该效应与老年被试组中愤怒面孔相较中性面孔更短的注视时长存在关联。此外，研究结果显示总注视时长是一项强有力的预测…… 参与者 本研究共招募41名被试，均通过眼动追踪记忆实验招募广告参与，且未获得实验报酬。纳入标准如下：（1）年龄处于18~30岁（青年被试组）或50~90岁（老年被试组）；（2）简易精神状态检查表（Mini–Mental State Examination，MMSE）得分高于25分。其中青年被试组共20人（男性7名，占比35%；平均年龄±标准差为22±2岁，年龄范围18~29岁），老年被试组共21人（男性9名，占比43%；平均年龄±标准差为69±7岁，年龄范围53~87岁）。因技术故障，老年被试组中有1名被试未纳入眼动分析。所有被试均完成了阿登布鲁克认知检查第三版（Addenbrooke’s Cognitive Examination III，ACE-III），该量表包含简易精神状态检查表（MMSE）；所有被试的ACE-III得分均高于71分。 眼动仪与眼动记录 眼动数据于编码阶段采集…… 所有数据分析均在SPSS中完成。