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Darrell A Worthy1, W Todd Maddox

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Older adults utilize simpler strategies like win-stay-lose-shift (WSLS) more than younger adults, who prefer reinforcement learning (RL). This impacts decision-making performance, particularly in tasks where past choices influence outcomes.

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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Neuroscience
  • Behavioral Economics

Background:

  • Decision-making strategies can differ across age groups.
  • Understanding these differences is crucial for cognitive aging research.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate age-based differences in strategy selection during decision-making.
  • To compare the efficacy of reinforcement learning (RL) versus win-stay-lose-shift (WSLS) models in explaining behavior.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized two four-choice decision-making tasks: one choice-independent and one choice-dependent.
  • Employed behavioral and computational modeling to analyze strategy use in younger and older adults.
  • Compared model fits for RL and WSLS heuristics.

Main Results:

  • Younger adults were best described by the RL model.
  • Older adults showed a stronger preference for the WSLS heuristic model.
  • Older adults performed worse in choice-independent tasks but better in choice-dependent tasks compared to younger adults.

Conclusions:

  • Age-related differences in strategy use, specifically the reliance on heuristics by older adults, contribute to performance variations in decision-making.
  • These findings suggest potential neurobiological underpinnings and highlight the adaptive nature of heuristic use in aging.