An fMRI Dataset on Social Reward Processing and Decision Making in Younger and Older Adults

Autor: David V. Smith, Rita M. Ludwig, Jeffrey B. Dennison, Crystal Reeck, Dominic S. Fareri
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2024
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Zdroj: Scientific Data, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-11 (2024)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2052-4463
DOI: 10.1038/s41597-024-02931-y
Popis: Abstract Behavioural and neuroimaging research has shown that older adults are less sensitive to financial losses compared to younger adults. Yet relatively less is known about age-related differences in social decisions and social reward processing. As part of a pilot study, we collected behavioural and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data from 50 participants (Younger: N = 26, ages 18–34 years; Older: N = 24, ages 63–80 years) who completed three tasks in the scanner: an economic trust game as the investor with three partners (computer, stranger, friend) as the investee; a card-guessing task with monetary gains and losses shared with three partners (computer, stranger, friend); and an ultimatum game as responder to three anonymous proposers (computer, age-similar adults, age-dissimilar adults). We also collected B0 field maps and high-resolution structural images (T1-weighted and T2-weighted images). These data could be reused to answer questions about moment-to-moment variability in fMRI signal, representational similarity between tasks, and brain structure.
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