Ageing is associated with exaggerated overstaying in foraging behaviour.
People constantly decide how much time to invest in rewarding activities. Foraging tasks assess this decision-making by measuring when individuals switch between contexts. People typically perform suboptimally in these tasks, largely due to overstaying, but it remains unclear whether this tendency c...
| Publicado en: | NPJ Aging Vol. 11; no. 1; pp. 1 - 11 |
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| Formato: | pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
5/30/2025
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