Temporal and probabilistic discounting of rewards in children and adolescents: Effects of age and ADHD symptoms

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 44, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 2092-2103

  Scheres, Anouk ^a,b   Dijkstra, Marianne ^b   Ainslie, Eleanor ^b   Balkan, Jaclyn ^b   Reynolds, Brady ^c   Sonuga Barke, Edmund ^b,d   Castellanos, F Xavier ^b  

^a University of Arizona   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY CHILD STUDY CENTER   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

AD HD; ADHD; Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; Development; Impulsivity; Probabilistic discounting; Reward; Temporal discounting

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; AVERSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONEY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REWARD; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REWARD;

EID: 33745624262     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.10.012     Document Type: Article

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