Dr. Nichole Lighthall, interviewed by AARP, shared insights into how aging affects decision-making—and how older adults can use their life experience to their advantage. While cognitive processing may slow with age, older adults often draw on accumulated wisdom and emotional insight to make meaningful, values-driven choices. Lighthall emphasizes taking time […]
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ADDL PhD student Margaret Doheny was awarded the Richard Tucker Gerontology research grant from LIFE@UCF. Her project, entitled: The Effects of Digitally-mediated Communication on Social Decisions across Adulthood, investigates how social decisions differ through remote communication. The study will compare results from a group of older adults to a group […]
Read the Springer Nature “Behind the Paper” story on our recent paper in Scientific Reports. The blog post entitled, “Facing wolves in sheep’s clothing: How younger and older adults differ in trust-related decision-making and learning” can be found here.
Congratulations to incoming AD&D Lab Ph.D. student, Maggie Doheny, on earning a UCF Summer Mentoring Fellowship award! With funding support from Graduate Studies, Maggie will complete a summer research project before beginning graduate school. Maggie’s summer project study will use computational modeling to compare trust-related learning in social and non-social […]
The AD&D Lab recently received an Exploratory Research Award from the the UCF Office of Research. This seed funding will support a pilot project examining neural mechanisms of trust-related learning in aging. The project will test hypotheses from our recently developed CISDA model (Changes in Integration for Social Decisions Making […]
The AD&D lab put their brains together in “Professor Moriarty’s” escape room — setting a new record with their winning time (#nikkiandthebrainiacs) and celebrating the victory with lots of sugary treats. The lab capped off the day by surprising Dr. Lighthall with brain and tropical themed baby gifts and wishing […]
The tragedy that occurred in Orlando on Sunday June 12th weighs heavy on our hearts. Now and forever, our lab stands with UCF and the Orlando community as a place of respect and love for all people. For information about campus resources and events, such as blood drives and vigils, […]