Publications by authors named "Abraham Dachs"
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- Social relationships evolve throughout life, impacting how older adults perceive and respond to social and non-social rewards, which may influence their decision-making processes, including vulnerability to financial exploitation.
- A 5-year study funded by the National Institute on Aging aims to explore neural responses to social rewards in adults aged 21-80 and examine the relationship between these responses and financial exploitation risks.
- The preliminary data from 114 participants will be analyzed through multi-echo fMRI and various tasks to assess brain function related to social rewards and decision-making, with an emphasis on potential long-term impacts on the health and well-being of older adults.
Explore-exploit research faces challenges in generalizability due to a limited theoretical basis for exploration and exploitation. Neuroimaging can help identify whether explore-exploit decisions involve an opponent processing system to address this issue. Thus, we conducted a coordinate-based meta-analysis (N=23 studies) finding activation in the dorsal lateral prefrontal cortex, anterior insula, and anterior cingulate cortex during exploration versus exploitation, which provides some evidence for opponent processing.
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