Can playing a game make a person smarter, more alert, and better able to learn? Well, the science on that question isn't clear.
Serving the Needs of Aging Investors
Professor Samanez-Larkin addresses what we thought we knew, what we know now, and what we can do about protecting the financial well being and reducing the fraud susceptibility of aging investors. He further discusses the front-line neuroscience that is changing how we understand the issues facing senior investors at the Senior Investors Forum on Serving the Needs of Our Aging Investors in Chicago hosted by SIFMA.
Best foot upward
New NIA grant funded to study dopamine and decision making
New R01 grant funded to examine how individual and age differences in dopamine receptors, release, and transporters are related to individual differences in decision making. The project is a collaboration between the Zald lab at Vanderbilt and the Samanez-Larkin lab at Yale.
Scammers take aim at aging population
Lab research at RLDM 2013
Lab collaborator (and future doctor!) Jacob Young presents at the inaugural Multidisciplinary Conference on Reinforcement Learning and Decision Making (RLDM2013) at Princeton University.
Lab opens in SSS at Yale
The Motivated Cognition and Aging Brain Lab opened in Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona (SSS) Hall.
Lab research highlighted in APS Observer
Why Older Minds Make Better Decisions
The decisions we make throughout our lives about money, work, health and relationships have a tremendous influence on how we age. And as the number of older people increases, not only in the United States but around the world, the decisions seniors make and how they make them will have a significant impact on global economies and societies.
White-matter pathways affect decision making as we age
A brain-mapping study, published in the April 11 issue of The Journal of Neuroscience, has found that people’s ability to make decisions in novel situations decreases with age and is associated with a reduction in the integrity of two specific white-matter pathways that connect an area in the cerebral cortex called the medial prefrontal cortex with two other areas deeper in the brain.