To choose or to avoid: Age differences in learning from positive and negative feedback

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 41-52

  Eppinger, Ben ^a,b   Kray, Jutta ^a  

^a SAARLAND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LEARNING DISORDER; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CHOICE BEHAVIOR; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEEDBACK, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOMETRICS; REACTION TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649473663     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: 15308898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21364     Document Type: Article

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