The findings indicate that with age, the amygdale may show decreasedreactivity to negative emotion. Therefore, elderly people pay less attention to negative emotions and become less likely to remember them, since their encoding is diminished as soon as they experience it. On the contrary, amygdale reactivity is maintained or even enhanced during the experience of pleasant situations. Another finding of this study indicates that participants with similar behavioral responses demonstrated the same activation patterns regardless of their age. The aforementioned findings demonstrate that behavioral factors also influence the brain activation patterns. Furthermore, aging does not reflect a global functioning decline of amygdale activity but a responsiveness shift towards to pleasant stimuli. The subjects viewed pictures from the International Affective Picture System (IAPS)