Chapter 6 - Adaptive Decision Making and Aging

Aging and Decision Making: Empirical and Applied Perspectives

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 105-126

  Mata, Rui ^a,b   Josef, Anika K ^b   Lemaire, Patrick ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (Germany)

^c AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Aging; Arithmetic; Cognitive control; Decision making; Execution; Memory; Selection; Strategy

Indexed keywords

EID: 84939839655     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-417148-0.00006-6     Document Type: Chapter

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