Age-related differences in the anticipation of future rewards

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 223, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 371-375

  Maasberg, David W ^a   Shelley, Laura E ^a   Gracian, Enrique I ^a   Gilbert, Paul E ^a,b  

^a SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Anticipation; Decision making; Prefrontal cortex; Reward

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTICIPATION; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD;

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DECISION MAKING; DRINKING; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; REWARD; SUCROSE;

EID: 80955178361     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.05.004     Document Type: Article

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