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Temporal discounting task
refers to the tendency of people to discount rewards as they approach a temporal horizon in the future or the past (i.e., become so distant in time that they cease to be valuable or to have additive effects). To put it another way, it is a tendency to give greater value to rewards as they move away from their temporal horizons and towards the "now". For instance, a nicotine deprived smoker may highly value a cigarette available any time in the next 6 hours but assign little or no value to a cigarette available in 6 months.

Definition contributed by NPicchetti about nine months ago.


Task records: 3  

appetitive motivation
  • standard deviation of k (discounting)
 

prospective planning
  • areas of activation during task minus baseline
 
  • standard deviation of k (discounting)
 

NPicchetti Initial definition retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporal_discounting
about nine months ago

Discounting of monetary and directly consumable rewards.
Estle SJ, Green L, Myerson J, Holt DD
Psychological science (Psychol Sci)
2007 Jan
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Behavioral and neuroeconomics of drug addiction: competing neural systems and temporal discounting processes.
Bickel WK, Miller ML, Yi R, Kowal BP, Lindquist DM, Pitcock JA
Drug and alcohol dependence (Drug Alcohol Depend)
2007 Sep
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Studying the relation between temporal reward discounting tasks used in populations with ADHD: a factor analysis.
Scheres A, Sumiya M, Thoeny AL
International journal of methods in psychiatric research (Int J Methods Psychiatr Res)
2010 Sep
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