Samanez-Larkin, Gregory R.
[VerfasserIn]
;
Kuhnen, Camelia M.
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Yoo, Daniel J.
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft];
Knutson, Brian
[Sonstige Person, Familie und Körperschaft]
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In: Journal of Neuroscience, Vol. 30, No. 4, pp. 1426-1434, January 2010
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments January 27, 2010 erstellt
Beschreibung:
As human life expectancy continues to rise, financial decisions of aging investors may have an increasing impact on the global economy. In this study, we examined age differences in financial decisions across the adult life span by combining functional neuroimaging with a dynamic financial investment task. During the task, older adults made more suboptimal choices than younger adults when choosing risky assets. This age-related effect was mediated by a neural measure of temporal variability in nucleus accumbens activity. These findings reveal a novel neural mechanism by which aging may disrupt rational financial choice