Individual differences in the neural signature of subjective value among older adults

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1111-1120

  Halfmann, Kameko ^a   Hedgcock, William ^b   Kable, Joseph ^c   Denburg, Natalie L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Aging; Decision making; Iowa gambling task; Value; Ventromedial prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

AGED; AGING; BLOOD; BRAIN MAPPING; CORPUS STRIATUM; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GAMBLING; HUMAN; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PSYCHOLOGY;

AGED; AGING; BRAIN MAPPING; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CORPUS STRIATUM; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; GAMBLING; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OXYGEN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

EID: 84991489131     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsv078     Document Type: Article

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