Emotional devaluation in ignoring and forgetting as a function of adolescent development

We know that emotion and cognition interact to guide goal-directed behavior. Accordingly, it has recently been shown distracting stimuli (Raymond, Fenske, & Tavassoli, 2003) instructed to-be-forgotten items (Vivas, Marful, Panagiotidou, Bajo, 2016) are emotionally devaluated. The devaluation by inhibition hypothesis is the main theoretical explanation of these effects. However, we little about how cognition-emotion interplay further modulated development, particularly, changes in inhibitory control affective processing within adolescence period. In present study combined a selective attention task with faces, memory (directed forgetting paradigm) words, pleasantness evaluation address this question three age groups; younger adolescents, older adolescents young adults. Younger exhibited worse accuracy task, lower overall recognition words smaller magnitude directed effect latter, relative two groups. That is, they showed less efficient selection. Despite this, all groups similar effects distractor faces words. Our findings do not fully support an account such Yet, robustness effect, replicating Vivas, Bajo (2016) Greek version bigger sample participants.