Highlights•Theories suggest that emotional life becomes more positive with age.•Recent
empirical findings suggest more nuanced conclusions.•Some, but not all, studies find more …

Bodily awareness is a central component of human sensation, action, and cognition. The
human body is subject to profound changes over the adult lifespan. We live in an aging …

As the most fascinating, complex, and dynamic part of our organism, the human brain is
shaped by many interacting factors that not only are of neurobiological (including sex …

Perception, identification, and understanding of others' actions from motion information are
vital for our survival in the social world. A breakthrough in the understanding of action …

Research on functional changes across the adult lifespan has been dominated by studies
related to cognitive processes. However, it has become evident that a more comprehensive …

Perceptual functions change with age, particularly motion perception. With regard to healthy
aging, previous studies mostly measured motion coherence thresholds for coarse motion …

Social directional cues (eg, gaze direction; walking direction) can trigger reflexive attentional
orienting, a phenomenon known as social attention. Here, we examined whether this …

We proved the viability of the general hypothesis that biological motion (BM) processing
serves as a hallmark of social cognition. We assumed that BM processing and inferring …

The world's population is aging at an increasing rate. Even in the absence of
neurodegenerative disorders, healthy aging affects perception and cognition. In the context …

Previous research has found associations between mental health difficulties and
interpretation biases, including heightened interpretation of threat from neutral or ambiguous …