RESEARCH
My research is broadly focused on changes in motivational, emotional, and cognitive processing across the adult life span. I am currently investigating incentive processing, learning, and decision making in younger, middle-aged, and older adults.
CURRENT PROJECTS
Time perspective and exploration over the adult life spanMcClure Decision Neuroscience Lab & Carstensen Life-span Development Lab
Individual differences in risky decision making
Knutson SPAN (in collaboration with Camelia Kuhnen)
Incentive processing in the aging brain
Knutson SPAN & Carstensen Life-span Development Lab
Affect valuation and neural responses to reward
Knutson SPAN & Tsai Culture and Emotion Lab
RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Robertson, E.R., Mikels, J.A., Carstensen, L.L., Gotlib, I.H. (2009) Selective attention to emotion in the aging brain. Psychology and Aging, 24(3), 519–529. pdfSamanez-Larkin, G.R., D’Esposito, M. (2008) Group comparisons: Imaging the aging brain. Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 3(3), 290–297. pdf
Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Hollon, N.G., Carstensen, L.L., Knutson, B. (2008) Individual differences in insular sensitivity during loss anticipation predict avoidance learning. Psychological Science, 19(4), 320–323. pdf
Samanez-Larkin, G.R., Gibbs, S.E.B., Khanna, K., Nielsen, L., Carstensen, L.L., Knutson, B. (2007) Anticipation of monetary gain but not loss in healthy older adults. Nature Neuroscience, 10(6), 787–791. pdf sup
For a complete list, see:
CV | PubMed