期刊
JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
卷 23, 期 5, 页码 1027-1041出版社
MIT PRESS
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2010.21527
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- National Institutes of Health [DP1OD003312]
- National Institute on Aging [AG030311]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23390192, 23330201] Funding Source: KAKEN
Emerging evidence indicates that stimulus novelty is affectively potent and reliably engages the amygdala and other portions of the affective workspace in the brain. Using fMRI, we examined whether novel stimuli remain affectively salient across the lifespan, and therefore, whether novelty processing-a potentially survival-relevant function-is preserved with aging. Nineteen young and 22 older healthy adults were scanned during observing novel and familiar affective pictures while estimating their own subjectively experienced aroused levels. We investigated age-related difference of magnitude of activation, hemodynamic time course, and functional connectivity of BOLD responses in the amygdala. Although there were no age-related differences in the peak response of the amygdala to novelty, older individuals showed a narrower, sharper (i.e., peakier) hemodynamic time course in response to novel stimuli, as well as decreased connectivity between the left amygdala and the affective areas including orbito-frontal regions. These findings have relevance for understanding age-related differences in memory and affect regulation.
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