Open Access<p>Deciphering Age Differences in Experience-Based Decision-Making: The Role of Sleep</p>
Author(s) -
Xuerui Peng,
Yunrui Liu,
Dongqiong Fan,
Xu Lei,
Quanying Liu,
Jing Yu
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
nature and science of sleep
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.715
H-Index - 34
ISSN - 1179-1608
DOI - 10.2147/nss.s272176
Subject(s) - medicine , sleep (system call) , young adult , cognition , wakefulness , sleep deprivation , effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive performance , gerontology , audiology , psychiatry , electroencephalography , computer science , operating system
Recent studies have demonstrated that sleep not only facilitates memory consolidation but also benefits more complex cognitive skills such as decision-making in young adults. Older adults use different decision strategies compared with young adults, which leaves the role of sleep in older adults' decision-making unclear. We investigated the age-by-sleep effect on decision-making.