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. 2025 Aug 12.
doi: 10.1007/s10339-025-01294-5. Online ahead of print.

Affective distraction by emotional arousal during visual attention: a comparative study with young and older adults

José Bourbon-Teles  1   2 , Pedro J Rosa  3   4 , Anna Valente  3 , Victoria Rosa  3 , Jorge Oliveira  3
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Affective distraction by emotional arousal during visual attention: a comparative study with young and older adults

José Bourbon-Teles et al. Cogn Process. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Aging; Distraction; Emotional arousal; Hedonic valence; Visual attention.

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Declarations. Conflict of interest: The authors report no conflict of interest. Ethical approval: This study was approved (or granted exemption) by the appropriate institutional and/or national research ethics committee (Ethics Committee of the Lusófona University) and was performed in accordance with the ethical standards as laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments or comparable ethical standards. Informed consent: Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. Human and animal rights: This article does not contain any studies with animals performed by any of the authors.

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