Publications by authors named "Camille Phaneuf"
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- Past experiences with rewards can change how we make choices in new situations.
- The study found that remembering high rewards from the past made it harder for people of all ages to learn from new experiences.
- Individual differences, like how much someone remembers the high rewards, also played a big role in how well they learned new things, especially in teenagers.
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- Reward motivation helps us remember things better by using different parts of the brain.
- As people grow older, the way they remember rewarding things changes in both good and unique ways.
- Research showed that younger people have certain brain connections that help them remember rewards better than older people do, while older people might have different brain connections that help with memory.
Prior research has found that food addiction is associated with reward-related neural differences, but research has yet to examine whether there are also neural differences in inhibitory control. This may be particularly relevant during adolescence as it is a key developmental period where difficulties in inhibitory control are more prevalent. The Yale Food Addiction Scale is a self-report questionnaire that applies substance use disorder diagnostic criteria to certain foods that has also been adapted for children.
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