Expected value information improves financial risk taking across the adult life span

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 207-217

  Samanez Larkin, Gregory R ^a   Wagner, Anthony D ^a   Knutson, Brian ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Decision making; fMRI; Learning; Memory; Reward

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; INDIVIDUALITY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; VASCULARIZATION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INDIVIDUALITY; LIFE EXPECTANCY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; RISK-TAKING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79954570441     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsq043     Document Type: Article

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