TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2012//
TI  - Individual Differences in Risky Decision-Making Among Seniors Reflect Increased Reward Sensitivity
JO  - Frontiers in neuroscience
A1  - Cavanagh, James F.
A1  - Neville, David
A1  - Cohen, Michael X.
A1  - Van de Vijver, Irene
A1  - Harsay, Helga
A1  - Watson, Poppy
A1  - Buitenweg, Jessika I.
A1  - Ridderinkhof, K. Richard
SP  - 111
EP  - 111
VL  - 6
IS  - 
N2  - Increasing age is associated with subtle but meaningful changes in decision-making. It is unknown, however, to what degree these psychological changes are reflective of age-related changes in decision quality. Here, we investigated the effect of age on latent cognitive processes associated with risky decision-making on the Balloon Analog Risk Task (BART). In the BART, participants repetitively inflate a balloon in order to increase potential reward. At any point, participants can decide to cash-out to harvest the reward, or they can continue, risking a balloon pop that erases all earnings. We found that among seniors, increasing age was associated with greater reward-related risk taking when the balloon has a higher probability of popping (i.e., a "high risk" condition). Cognitive modeling results from hierarchical Bayesian estimation suggested that performance differences were due to increased reward sensitivity in high risk conditions in seniors.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1662-4548
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2012.00111
ID  - ref1
ER  -