Quantitative Reasoning in Adult Development and Aging Meeting

Workshop participants provided expertise across a wide range of fields: numerical cognition, quantitative and document literacy, mathematics, judgment and decision-making, neuropsychology, and behavioral economics. The specific topics covered at the workshop included:

• age-related changes in numerical processing strategies;
• proportional and probabilistic reasoning processes;
• estimation skills, investment, and risk-taking behaviors; and,
• financial abilities in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.

A summary of this meeting is available upon request. Please contact BSRQuery@mail.nih.gov.