Ecological rationality: a framework for understanding and aiding the aging decision maker

R Mata, T Pachur, B Von Helversen… - Frontiers in …, 2012 - frontiersin.org
The notion of ecological rationality sees human rationality as the result of the adaptive fit
between the human mind and the environment. Ecological rationality focuses the study of …

Learning new categories in older age: A review of theoretical perspectives and empirical findings.

CR Bowman, MR Valdez, SA Obarski - Psychology and Aging, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
The ability to learn new concepts involves linking pieces of related information to create an
organized knowledge structure, and it is an essential cognitive function for individuals of all …

Pillars of judgment: how memory abilities affect performance in rule-based and exemplar-based judgments.

JA Hoffmann, B von Helversen… - Journal of Experimental …, 2014 - psycnet.apa.org
Making accurate judgments is an essential skill in everyday life. Although how different
memory abilities relate to categorization and judgment processes has been hotly debated …

Deliberation's blindsight: How cognitive load can improve judgments

JA Hoffmann, B von Helversen… - Psychological …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
Multitasking poses a major challenge in modern work environments by putting the worker
under cognitive load. Performance decrements often occur when people are under high …

Dual systems of speech category learning across the lifespan.

WT Maddox, B Chandrasekaran, K Smayda… - Psychology and …, 2013 - psycnet.apa.org
Although categorization is fundamental to speech processing, little is known about the
learning systems that mediate auditory categorization and even less is known about …

Eye movements reveal memory processes during similarity-and rule-based decision making

A Scholz, B von Helversen, J Rieskamp - Cognition, 2015 - Elsevier
Recent research suggests that when people retrieve information from memory they tend to
fixate on the location where the information had appeared during encoding. We used this …

[HTML][HTML] Computational neuroscience across the lifespan: Promises and pitfalls

W van den Bos, R Bruckner, MR Nassar, R Mata… - Developmental cognitive …, 2018 - Elsevier
In recent years, the application of computational modeling in studies on age-related
changes in decision making and learning has gained in popularity. One advantage of …

The effects of age on category learning and prototype-and exemplar-based generalization.

CR Bowman, T Iwashita, D Zeithamova - Psychology and aging, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
The need to learn new concepts and categories persists through the lifespan, yet little is
known about how aging affects the concept learning and generalization. Here, we trained …

Losing a dime with a satisfied mind: positive affect predicts less search in sequential decision making.

B von Helversen, R Mata - Psychology and aging, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
Abstract [Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 27 (4) of
Psychology and Aging (see record 2012-10865-001). The t values and p values for Negative …

Aging, memory, and decision making

F Del Missier, T Mäntylä, LG Nilsson - Aging and decision making, 2015 - Elsevier
Aging differentially affects diverse aspects of memory functioning. In turn, memory changes
have specific effects on different judgment and decision-making tasks. This chapter focuses …