Author(s): Bolenz F; Profitt MF; Stechbarth F; Eppinger B; Strobel A;

Humans show metacontrol of decision making, that is they adapt their reliance on decision-making strategies toward situational differences such as differences in reward magnitude. Specifically, when higher rewards are at stake, individuals increase reliance on a more accurate but cognitively effortful strategy. We investigated whether the personality trai ...

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Author(s): Ruel A; Bolenz F; Li SC; Fischer A; Eppinger B;

Under high cognitive demands, older adults tend to resort to simpler, habitual, or model-free decision strategies. This age-related shift in decision behavior has been attributed to deficits in the representation of the cognitive maps, or state spaces, necessary for more complex model-based decision-making. Yet, the neural mechanisms behind this shift rem ...

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Author(s): Bolenz F; Eppinger B;

The development of metacontrol of decision making and its susceptibility to framing effects were investigated in a sample of 201 adolescents and adults in Germany (12-25 years, 111 female, ethnicity not recorded). In a task that dissociates model-free and model-based decision making, outcome magnitude and outcome valence were manipulated. Both adolescents ...

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Author(s): Devine S; Neumann C; Otto AR; Bolenz F; Reiter A; Eppinger B;

Previous work suggests that lifespan developmental differences in cognitive control reflect maturational and aging-related changes in prefrontal cortex functioning. However, complementary explanations exist: It could be that children and older adults differ from younger adults in how they balance the effort of engaging in control against its potential ben ...

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Author(s): Bolenz F, Kool W, Reiter AM, Eppinger B

Elife. 2019 Aug 09;8: Authors: Bolenz F, Kool W, Reiter AM, Eppinger B

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Author(s): Bolenz F, Reiter AMF, Eppinger B

Front Psychol. 2017;8:2048 Authors: Bolenz F, Reiter AMF, Eppinger B

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