We propose that older adults' ability to retrieve episodic autobiographical events, although
often viewed through a lens of decline, reveals much about what is preserved and prioritized …

Although aging is associated with clear declines in physical and cognitive processes,
emotional functioning fares relatively well. Consistent with this behavioral profile, two core …

Many decisions in the lives of animals and humans require a fine balance between the
exploration of different options and the exploitation of their rewards. Do you buy the …

Intuitively, children appear to be more exploratory than adults, and this exploration seems to
help children learn,. However, there have been few clear tests of these ideas. We test …

Foraging is a fundamental behavior, and many types of animals appear to have solved
foraging problems using a shared set of mechanisms. Perhaps the most common foraging …

Computational phenoty** has emerged as a powerful tool for characterizing individual
variability across a variety of cognitive domains. An individual's computational phenotype is …

How do children and adults differ in their search for rewards? We considered three different
hypotheses that attribute developmental differences to (a) children's increased random …

Are young children just random explorers who learn serendipitously? Or are even young
children guided by uncertainty‐directed sampling, seeking to explore in a systematic …

Changes in cognition, affect, and brain function combine to promote a shift in the nature of
mentation in older adulthood, favoring exploitation of prior knowledge over exploratory …

Patch foraging is a near-ubiquitous behaviour across the animal kingdom and characterises
many decision-making domains encountered by humans. We review how a disposition to …