Older adults are highly responsive to recent events during decision-making

Decision

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 27-38

  Worthy, Darrell A ^a   Byrne, Kaileigh A ^a   Ross Otto, A ^b   Doll, Bradley B ^b   Todd Maddox, W ^c  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Decision making; Mathematical modeling; Reinforcement learning; Reward

Indexed keywords

EID: 84975855767     PISSN: 23259965     EISSN: 23259973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/dec0000018     Document Type: Article

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