Aging and Gerontology Research

Neural Evidence of Functional Compensation for Fluid Intelligence in Healthy Ageing

The paper examines brain activity and cognitive performance in older adults during a problem-solving task, finding increased cuneal cortex activity with age and performance, suggesting functional compensation for fluid intelligence.

Positivity effect in aging: Evidence for the primacy of positive responses to emotional ambiguity

This study investigates age-related differences in interpreting emotionally ambiguous stimuli, finding that older adults show greater amygdala habituation linked to a positivity bias in valence interpretation.