Cognitive Effort-Based Decision-Making Across Experimental and Daily Life Indices in Younger and Older Adults.

Objectives The study investigated whether cognitive effort decision-making measured via a neuroeconomic paradigm that manipulated framing (gain vs. loss outcomes), could predict daily life engagement in mentally demanding activities in both younger and older adults. Method Younger and older adult pa...

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Publicado en:Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences & Social Sciences Vol. 78; no. 1; pp. 40 - 51
Autores principales: Crawford, Jennifer L, English, Tammy, Braver, Todd S
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Publicado: Oxford University Press / USA Jan2023
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          Crawford, Jennifer L
          English, Tammy
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        Motivation (Psychology)
        Task performance
        Activities of daily living
        Decision making
        Reward (Psychology)
        Adults
        Middle age
        Old age
        Comparative studies
        Short-term memory
        Descriptive statistics
        Research funding
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          Motivation (Psychology)
          Task performance
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          Comparative studies
          Short-term memory
          Descriptive statistics
          Research funding
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        Cognitive effort
        Decision-making
        Ecological Momentary Assessment
        Incentive framing
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      ab: Objectives The study investigated whether cognitive effort decision-making measured via a neuroeconomic paradigm that manipulated framing (gain vs. loss outcomes), could predict daily life engagement in mentally demanding activities in both younger and older adults. Method Younger and older adult participants (N = 310) completed the Cognitive Effort Discounting paradigm (Cog-ED), under both gain and loss conditions, to provide an experimental index of cognitive effort costs for each participant in each framing condition. A subset of participants (N = 230) also completed a 7-day Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) protocol measuring engagement in mentally demanding daily life activities. Results In a large, online sample, we replicated a robust increase in cognitive effort costs among older, relative to younger, adults. Additionally, costs were found to be reduced in the loss relative to gain frame, although these effects were only reliable at high levels of task difficulty and were not moderated by age. Critically, participants who had lower effort costs in the gain frame tended to report engaging in more mentally demanding daily life activities, but the opposite pattern was observed in the loss frame. Further analyses demonstrated the specificity of reward-related cognitive motivation in predicting daily life mentally demanding activities. Discussion Together, these results suggest that cognitive effort costs, as measured through behavioral choice patterns in a neuroeconomic decision-making task, can be used to predict and explain engagement in mentally demanding activities during daily life among both older and younger adults.
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