The positivity effect: A negativity bias in youth fades with age

LL Carstensen, M DeLiema - Current opinion in behavioral sciences, 2018‏ - Elsevier
Highlights•Neural degradation and cognitive impairment cannot account for the positivity
effect.•Cognitive load reduces the positivity effect.•Constraints on time horizons produce the …

Memory and reward-based learning: A value-directed remembering perspective

BJ Knowlton, AD Castel - Annual review of psychology, 2022‏ - annualreviews.org
The ability to prioritize valuable information is critical for the efficient use of memory in daily
life. When information is important, we engage more effective encoding mechanisms that …

Decision making in the ageing brain: changes in affective and motivational circuits

GR Samanez-Larkin, B Knutson - Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2015‏ - nature.com
As the global population ages, older decision makers will be required to take greater
responsibility for their own physical, psychological and financial well-being. With this in …

[HTML][HTML] The human cerebellum in reward anticipation and outcome processing: an activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis

ES Kruithof, J Klaus, DJLG Schutter - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
The cerebellum generates internal prediction models and actively compares anticipated and
actual outcomes in order to reach a desired end state. In this process, reward can serve as a …

Subjective value representations during effort, probability and time discounting across adulthood

KL Seaman, N Brooks, TM Karrer… - Social cognitive and …, 2018‏ - academic.oup.com
Every day, humans make countless decisions that require the integration of information
about potential benefits (ie rewards) with other decision features (ie effort required …

The ironic effect of older adults' increased task motivation: Implications for neurocognitive aging

AD Ryan, KL Campbell - Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, 2021‏ - Springer
Recent work suggests that most older adults who volunteer to take part in cognitive
experiments are more motivated to do well than are undergraduate students. This empirical …

Age differences in motivated cognition: A meta-analysis

LT Swirsky, EP Sparrow, MD Sullivan… - The Journals of …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
Objectives The goal of this preregistered study was to synthesize empirical findings on age
differences in motivated cognition using a meta-analytic approach, with a focus on the …

Age-related differences in metacognition for memory capacity and selectivity

ALM Siegel, AD Castel - Memory, 2019‏ - Taylor & Francis
Background: We compared two types of metacognitive monitoring in younger and older
adults: metacognitive accuracy for their overall memory performance and their ability to …

Motivational influences on performance monitoring and cognitive control across the adult lifespan

NK Ferdinand, D Czernochowski - Frontiers in Psychology, 2018‏ - frontiersin.org
Cognitive control refers to the ability to regulate cognitive processing according to the tasks
at hand, especially when these are demanding. It includes maintaining and updating …

Reward motivation influences response bias on a recognition memory task

HJ Bowen, ML Marchesi, EA Kensinger - Cognition, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Reward-motivated memory has been studied extensively in psychology and neuroscience.
Many recognition studies follow the same type of paradigm: stimuli are cued at encoding …