Characterization of children's decision making: Sensitivity to punishment frequency, not task complexity

Child Neuropsychology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 245-263

  Crone, Eveline A ^a,c   Bunge, Silvia A ^a   Latenstein, Heleen ^b   Van Der Molen, Maurits W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Decision making; Development; Executive function; Gambling; Gender; Perseveration; Somatic marker

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PUNISHMENT; REWARD; SEX DIFFERENCE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

ADOLESCENT; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GAMBLING; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PUNISHMENT; SEX FACTORS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 21344470874     PISSN: 09297049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/092970490911261     Document Type: Article

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