YT Chen, IM McDonough, KE Faig, GJ Norman… - NeuroImage, 2022 - Elsevier

Impact of stereotype threat on brain activity during memory tasks in older adults.

stereotype threat

Faig, McDonough, Norman

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Excerpt

We report the first neuroimaging experiment to investigate the impact of explicitly activating aging stereotypes (ie, stereotype threat) on brain activity during cognitive tasks. Cognitively normal older adults read about aging stereotypes or a control passage prior to taking episodic memory, working memory, and a non-demanding control task during fMRI. At the group level, stereotype activation did not impact cognitive performance or measures sensitive to stress and anxiety (physiological or self-report), but like prior work, highly …