Aging and decision making under uncertainty: Behavioral and neural evidence for the preservation of decision making in the absence of learning in old age

NeuroImage

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1514-1520

  Hosseini, S M Hadi ^a   Rostami, Maryam ^a   Yomogida, Yukihito ^a,b   Takahashi, Makoto ^a   Tsukiura, Takashi ^a   Kawashima, Ryuta ^a  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SOCIETY FOR THE PROMOTION OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Decision making; FMRI; Maximizing; Probability matching; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN FUNCTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NERVE CELL NETWORK; ORBITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PREDICTION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGING; BRAIN; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77954959102     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.05.008     Document Type: Article

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