Decision-Making Deficits in Elderly Can Be Alleviated by Attention Training

Decision-Making Deficits in Elderly Can Be Alleviated by Attention Training

Decision-making is an important everyday function that deteriorates during normal aging. Here, we asked whether value-based decision-making can be improved in the elderly by cognitive training. We compared the effects of two training regimens on the performance in the Iowa Gambling Task (IGT), a rea...

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Main Authors: Marlen Schmicker, Inga Menze, David Koch, Ulrike Rumpf, Patrick Müller, Lasse Pelzer, Notger G. Müller
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-07-01
Series:Journal of Clinical Medicine
Subjects:
visual working memory
selective attention
decision-making
aging
cognitive training
distractor inhibition
prominent deck B phenomenon
Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2077-0383/8/8/1131

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