Age differences in strategy selection and risk preference during risk-based decision making

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 138-148

  Samson, Rachel D ^a   Venkatesh, Anu ^a   Lester, Adam W ^a   Tobias Weinstein, A ^a   Lipa, Peter ^a   Barnes, Carol A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost benefit ratio; Reward; Risk discounting; Uncertainty; Win stay lose shift

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGING; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; CERTAINTY BIAS; COGNITION; COGNITIVE BIAS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EMOTIONALITY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; FISCHER 344 RAT; JUVENILE ANIMAL; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PROBABILISTIC DISCOUNTING TASK; PROBABILITY; RAT; REWARD; RISK AVERSION; RISK BASED DECISION MAKING; RISK PREFERENCE; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL MEMORY; STRATEGY SELECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNCERTAINTY; ANIMAL; DELAY DISCOUNTING; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK;

AGING; ANIMALS; DELAY DISCOUNTING; MALE; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; REWARD; RISK;

EID: 84925768346     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/bne0000037     Document Type: Article

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