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The Effect of Emotional Valence of Stimuli on Lexical Retrieval in Younger and Older Adults

Blackett, Deena Schwen

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2016, Master of Arts, Ohio State University, Speech and Hearing Science.
The current study aims to determine if the emotional valence of pictures impacts naming latencies in healthy younger and older adults. Eighteen healthy young adults and 18 healthy older adults were asked to name images with positive, negative, or neutral valence. Participants’ reaction times for positive and negative images were significantly longer than reaction times for neutral images. Reaction times for positive and negative images were not significantly different. Whereas older adults had significantly longer naming latencies than younger adults, results showed that the discrepancy in latency with age is greater when naming positive and negative pictures, than with neutral pictures.
Stacy Harnish, Ph.D. (Advisor)
Eric Healy, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
38 p.

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  • Blackett, D. S. (2016). The Effect of Emotional Valence of Stimuli on Lexical Retrieval in Younger and Older Adults [Master's thesis, Ohio State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1460383336

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Blackett, Deena. The Effect of Emotional Valence of Stimuli on Lexical Retrieval in Younger and Older Adults. 2016. Ohio State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1460383336.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Blackett, Deena. "The Effect of Emotional Valence of Stimuli on Lexical Retrieval in Younger and Older Adults." Master's thesis, Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1460383336

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)