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Individual Differences in Risky Decision-Making Among Seniors Reflect Increased Reward Sensitivity
Increasing age is associated with subtle but meaningful changes in decision-making. It is unknown, however, to what degree these psychological changes are reflective of age-related changes in decision quality. Here, we investigated the effect of age on latent cognitive processes associated with risk...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3398316/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22822391 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2012.00111 |
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author | Cavanagh, James F. Neville, David Cohen, Michael X Van de Vijver, Irene Harsay, Helga Watson, Poppy Buitenweg, Jessika I. Ridderinkhof, K. Richard |
author_facet | Cavanagh, James F. Neville, David Cohen, Michael X Van de Vijver, Irene Harsay, Helga Watson, Poppy Buitenweg, Jessika I. Ridderinkhof, K. Richard |
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description | Increasing age is associated with subtle but meaningful changes in decision-making. It is unknown, however, to what degree these psychological changes are reflective of age-related changes in decision quality. Here, we investigated the effect of age on latent cognitive processes associated with risky decision-making on the Balloon Analog Risk Task (BART). In the BART, participants repetitively inflate a balloon in order to increase potential reward. At any point, participants can decide to cash-out to harvest the reward, or they can continue, risking a balloon pop that erases all earnings. We found that among seniors, increasing age was associated with greater reward-related risk taking when the balloon has a higher probability of popping (i.e., a “high risk” condition). Cognitive modeling results from hierarchical Bayesian estimation suggested that performance differences were due to increased reward sensitivity in high risk conditions in seniors. |
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spelling | pubmed-33983162012-07-20 Individual Differences in Risky Decision-Making Among Seniors Reflect Increased Reward Sensitivity Cavanagh, James F. Neville, David Cohen, Michael X Van de Vijver, Irene Harsay, Helga Watson, Poppy Buitenweg, Jessika I. Ridderinkhof, K. Richard Front Neurosci Neuroscience Increasing age is associated with subtle but meaningful changes in decision-making. It is unknown, however, to what degree these psychological changes are reflective of age-related changes in decision quality. Here, we investigated the effect of age on latent cognitive processes associated with risky decision-making on the Balloon Analog Risk Task (BART). In the BART, participants repetitively inflate a balloon in order to increase potential reward. At any point, participants can decide to cash-out to harvest the reward, or they can continue, risking a balloon pop that erases all earnings. We found that among seniors, increasing age was associated with greater reward-related risk taking when the balloon has a higher probability of popping (i.e., a “high risk” condition). Cognitive modeling results from hierarchical Bayesian estimation suggested that performance differences were due to increased reward sensitivity in high risk conditions in seniors. Frontiers Research Foundation 2012-07-17 /pmc/articles/PMC3398316/ /pubmed/22822391 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2012.00111 Text en Copyright © 2012 Cavanagh, Neville, Cohen, Van de Vijver, Harsay, Watson, Buitenweg and Ridderinkhof. http://www.frontiersin.org/licenseagreement This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in other forums, provided the original authors and source are credited and subject to any copyright notices concerning any third-party graphics etc. |
spellingShingle | Neuroscience Cavanagh, James F. Neville, David Cohen, Michael X Van de Vijver, Irene Harsay, Helga Watson, Poppy Buitenweg, Jessika I. Ridderinkhof, K. Richard Individual Differences in Risky Decision-Making Among Seniors Reflect Increased Reward Sensitivity |
title | Individual Differences in Risky Decision-Making Among Seniors Reflect Increased Reward Sensitivity |
title_full | Individual Differences in Risky Decision-Making Among Seniors Reflect Increased Reward Sensitivity |
title_fullStr | Individual Differences in Risky Decision-Making Among Seniors Reflect Increased Reward Sensitivity |
title_full_unstemmed | Individual Differences in Risky Decision-Making Among Seniors Reflect Increased Reward Sensitivity |
title_short | Individual Differences in Risky Decision-Making Among Seniors Reflect Increased Reward Sensitivity |
title_sort | individual differences in risky decision-making among seniors reflect increased reward sensitivity |
topic | Neuroscience |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3398316/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22822391 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2012.00111 |
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