Is it time? Episodic imagining and the discounting of delayed and probabilistic rewards in young and older adults.

ABSTRACT: Remembering and imagining specific, personal experiences can help shape our decisions. For example, cues to imagine future events can reduce delay discounting (i.e., increase the subjective value of future rewards). It is not known, however, whether such cues can also modulate other forms of reward discounting, such as probability discounting (i.e., the decrease in the subjective value of a possible reward as the odds against its occurrence increase). In addition, it is unclear whether there are age-related differences in the effects of cueing on either delay or probability discounting. Accordingly, young and older adult participants were administered delay and probability discounting tasks both with and without cues to imagine specific, personally meaningful events. As expected, cued epis

SUBMITTER: Mok JNY 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7152567 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature