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

我们知道情感和认知相互作用以指导目标导向的行为。因此，最近发现，分散注意力的刺激（Raymond，Fenske和Tavassoli，2003年）和指示被遗忘的物品（Vivas，Marful，Panagiotidou和Bajo，2016年）在情感上贬值了。在通过抑制假说贬值（Raymond，Fenske，＆Tavassoli，2003）是这些效应的主要理论解释。但是，我们对认知-情感相互作用如何通过发育，特别是在青春期内抑制控制和情感过程的变化进一步调节，知之甚少。在本研究中，我们将选择注意任务与面部表情，选择记忆（定向遗忘范式）任务与单词相结合，将愉快度评估任务与三个年龄组一起解决。年轻的青少年，年长的青少年和年轻人。相对于两个年龄较大的组，年轻的青少年在注意力任务中表现出较差的准确性，在记忆任务中对单词的整体识别能力较低，在后者中的定向遗忘效应幅度较小。那是，他们在注意力和记忆选择上表现出较低的抑制控制力。尽管如此，所有小组都显示出分心者的面孔和被遗忘的单词具有类似的贬值效果。我们的发现并不完全支持对这种作用的抑制作用。但是，它们支持忘记贬值的影响，将Vivas，Marful，Panagiotidou和Bajo（2016）的发现复制到希腊版的任务中，并在更大的参与者样本中进行复制。