Exploratory decision-making as a function of lifelong experience, not cognitive decline.

Exploratory Decision-Making as a Function of Lifelong Experience, Not Cognitive Decline

Older adults perform worse than younger adults in some complex decision-making scenarios, which is commonly attributed to age-related declines in striatal and frontostriatal processing. Recently, this popular account has been challenged by work that considered how older adults' performance may differ as a function of greater knowledge and experience, and by work showing that, in some cases, old...

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Exploratory Decision-Making as a Function of Lifelong Experience, Not Cognitive Decline

Decision Making: A Cognitive Function Approach

This paper presents a cognitive function approach to decision-making. Traditional approaches are usually based on single-agent models that typically attempt to capture sequential information processing. They are limited to the account of cognitive functions such as observation, interpretation, planning and action execution. Multi-agent models enable the capture of both sequential and parallel i...

An exploratory cognitive DSS for strategic decision making

Research on decision support systems (DSS)/executive information systems (EIS) has been primarily concerned with the behavioral aspect of managerial work and has largely ignored the cognitive aspect of decision support. Rather than focusing on the manager’s information need on ‘‘critical success factors’’ and the need for supporting specific decision making, this research emphasizes the need to...

Exploratory Decision-Making in Depression 1 The Influence of Depression Symptoms on Exploratory Decision-Making

People with symptoms of depression show impairments in decision-making. One explanation is that they have difficulty maintaining rich representations of the task environment. We test this hypothesis in the context of exploratory choice. We analyze depressive and non-depressive participants’ exploration strategies by comparing their choices to two computational models: 1) an “Ideal Actor” model ...