Foraging across the life span: is there a reduction in exploration with aging?
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...Our paradigm and results therefore make an important step towards development of across-species links in studies of aging and learning, given that similar exploration tasks can be implemented in rodents and primates (Metcalfe and Jacobs, 2010; Mata et al., 2013)....
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...This information could be important for linking knowledge of neural mechanisms of memory decline across human and nonhuman animal models (Mata et al., 2013)....
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...While our task confirmed that exploitation increased with age, other search tasks have shown opposite effects (Hills et al., 2013; Mata et al., 2013)....
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...Exploration is an adaptive first step because it allows one to acquire information about the environment that will later lead to successful exploitation (Sutton and Barto, 1998)....
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...…times have been suggested to capture reliable individual differences in search (Dougherty and Harbison, 2007), any reaction-time based measure poses interpretational problems regarding exploratory tendencies with aging due to overall age differences in motor and cognitive speed (Salthouse, 1996)....
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...Research on humans suggests that openness and novelty seeking declines over the life span as measured by self-report (Roberts et al., 2006; Lucas and Donnellan, 2011)....
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...But what evidence is there of age differences in novelty seeking and exploratory behavior? Research on humans suggests that openness and novelty seeking declines over the life span as measured by self-report (Roberts et al., 2006; Lucas and Donnellan, 2011)....
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...…= 99) completed a number of questionnaire measures that we reasoned could be related to exploratory behavior, including risk-taking in the investment and gambling domain (Weber et al., 2002), maximization tendencies (Schwartz et al., 2002), and future time perspective (Lang and Carstensen, 2002)....
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