Complementary approaches to the study of decision making across the adult life span
| Autor: | Gregory R Samanez-Larkin, Shu-Chen eLi, K Richard eRidderinkhof |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Ontwikkelingspsychologie (Psychologie, FMG) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
| Předmět: |
computational modeling
Neurotransmitter systems Prefrontal Cortex Intertemporal choice decision making Task (project management) Developmental psychology lcsh:RC321-571 memory 03 medical and health sciences Biological maturation 0302 clinical medicine Order (exchange) 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Relevance (information retrieval) 050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology Prefrontal cortex lcsh:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry reward risk learning General Neuroscience 05 social sciences aging Editorial Article intertemporal choice Adult life Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive psychology Neuroscience |
| Zdroj: | Frontiers in Neuroscience Frontiers in Neuroscience, 7:243. Frontiers Media S.A. Frontiers in Neuroscience, Vol 7 (2013) |
| ISSN: | 1662-453X 1662-4548 |
| Popis: | Learning to choose adaptively between different behavioral options in order to reach goals is a pervasive task in life for people of all ages. Individuals are often confronted with complex, uncertain situations that nonetheless require decisive actions that would facilitate the pursuit of short-term or long-term goals. Adaptive decision making as such entails interactions between processes that monitor the choice-outcome relations as well as processes that evaluate these relations with respect to goal relevance. These dynamics implicate close interplays between attention, learning, memory, motivation, and emotion, which are subserved by cortical-subcortical networks and are neurochemically regulated by transmitters, such as norepinephrine, dopamine, and serotonin. Across the life span, these functional brain circuits as well as neurotransmitter systems undergo basic biological maturation and senescence as well as plasticity due to the accumulation of experience or changes in motivational goals (Braver and Barch, 2002; Li and Sikstrom, 2002; Duzel et al., 2010; Li et al., 2010; Mohr et al., 2010; Li, 2013). Studying decision making across different adult life periods may shed light on how the very processes of decision making adapt to constraints on brain resources due to aging, how these processes benefit from experience, or how decision making is influenced by shifting goals. |
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