Reduced sensitivity to immediate reward during decision-making in older than younger adults

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Eppinger, Ben ^a,b,c   Nystrom, Leigh E ^a   Cohen, Jonathan D ^a,b  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DECISION MAKING; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMPULSIVENESS; MALE; NERVE FUNCTION; NEUROMODULATION; NORMAL HUMAN; REACTION TIME; REWARD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; AGE; AGED; BASAL GANGLION; BRAIN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BASAL GANGLIA; BRAIN; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; REWARD; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861413876     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0036953     Document Type: Article

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