ArticleFrontiers in aging neuroscience2017
Cognitive Control Modulates Effects of Episodic Simulation on Delay Discounting in Aging.
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- Behavioral trainings and manipulations to reduce delay discounting: A systematic review.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2019Pooled it
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- Positive autobiographical memory recall does not influence temporal discounting: an internal meta-analysis of experimental studies.Journal Of Economic Psychology · 2024Article
- Age differences in the neural basis of decision-making under uncertainty.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
- The Influence of Episodic Future Thinking and Graphic Warning Labels on Delay Discounting and Cigarette Demand.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Subjective Time in Dementia: A Critical Review.Brain sciences · 2021Review
- Age-Related Structural and Functional Changes of the Hippocampus and the Relationship with Inhibitory Control.Brain sciences · 2020Article
- Looking on the Bright Side: Aging and the Impact of Emotional Future Simulation on Subsequent Memory.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2020Article
- Examining delay of gratification in healthy aging.Behavioural processes · 2020Article
- Is it time? Episodic imagining and the discounting of delayed and probabilistic rewards in young and older adults.Cognition · 2020Article
- Links between autobiographical memory richness and temporal discounting in older adults.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Deliberating trade-offs with the future.Nature human behaviour · 2020Review
- Alcohol Use Disorder Interventions Targeting Brain Sites for Both Conditioned Reward and Delayed Gratification.Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics · 2020Review
- Altered structural and functional brain network overall organization predict human intertemporal decision-making.Human brain mapping · 2019Article
- Concreteness and emotional valence of episodic future thinking (EFT) independently affect the dynamics of intertemporal decisions.PloS one · 2019Article
- Functional MRI on executive functioning in aging and dementia: A scoping review of cognitive tasks.Aging medicine (Milton (N.S.W)) · 2018Article
- Thinking about others and the future: Neural correlates of perspective taking relate to preferences for delayed rewards.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2018Article
- Decline of prefrontal cortical-mediated executive functions but attenuated delay discounting in aged Fischer 344 × brown Norway hybrid rats.Neurobiology of aging · 2017Article
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Abstract
Enhancing prospective thinking by tagging the future with specific episodic events has been shown to reduce delay discounting in young age ("tag-effect"). So far, it is unclear whether such beneficial effect extends to old adulthood. Since the general ability of future thinking and cognitive control are crucial modulators of temporal discounting in young age, potential age-related decline in these functions might impact on the effect. We focused on this issue by combining functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) with an established intertemporal choice task including episodic "tags" in healthy older participants. Future thinking ability was assessed using autobiographical interviews for future event simulations and a visual search task was applied to assess participants' cognitive control ability. In contrast to previous data in young adults, the group of older participants did not benefit from tagging the future with episodic events. Older participants' cognitive control function was directly associated with discounting rates in the episodic conditions: the less the older adults were able to focus their attention the less they benefited from the inclusion of episodic events. Consistent with this, imaging results revealed that: (a) subjective value (SV) signals in the hippocampus and the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) as well as; (b) hippocampal-striatal coupling during the episodic condition were positively related to participants' control capacity. Our findings highlight the critical role of executive functioning for the simultaneous integration of episodic information with future value computation in aging. Boosting delay gratification by including episodic tags might hence be limited in older individuals with pronounced decline in distraction control.
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