Gregory Russell Samanez-Larkin
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience
Overview
Research in our lab examines how individual and age differences in motivation and cognition influence decision making and health behavior across the life span. Our research is at the intersection of a number of subfields within psychology, neuroscience, and economics including human development, affective science, cognitive neuroscience, behavioral economics, and finance. We use a combination of behavioral and neuroimaging techniques ranging from detailed measurement of functional brain activity (fMRI) and neuroreceptors (PET) in the laboratory to experience sampling in everyday life.
Selected Grants
Effects of Aging on Episodic Memory-Dependent Decision Making awarded by National Institutes of Health (Co-Principal Investigator). 2018 to 2023
REU Site: Lifespan Approaches to Diverse Psychological Science awarded by National Science Foundation (Co-Principal Investigator). 2020 to 2023
Short Courses in Neuroeconomics and Social Neuroscience awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 2017 to 2021
Research Network on Decision Neuroscience and Aging awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 2016 to 2021
Forming Science-Industry Partnerships to Link Everyday Behaviors to Well-Being awarded by Stanford University (Principal Investigator). 2017 to 2020
Dopaminergic Neuromodulation of Decision Making in Young and Middle-Aged Adults awarded by Vanderbilt University (Principal Investigator). 2017 to 2019
NEUROMODULATION OF MOTIVATED COGNITION AND DECISION MAKING ACROSS ADULTHOOD awarded by National Institutes of Health (Principal Investigator). 2012 to 2018
Samanez-Larkin, G. R. “Chapter 3 - Decision Neuroscience and Aging.” Aging and Decision Making: Empirical and Applied Perspectives, 2015, pp. 41–60. Scopus, doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-417148-0.00003-0. Full Text
Sofia Beas, B., et al. “Chapter 2 - Modeling Cost-Benefit Decision Making in Aged Rodents.” Aging and Decision Making: Empirical and Applied Perspectives, 2015, pp. 17–40. Scopus, doi:10.1016/B978-0-12-417148-0.00002-9. Full Text
Samanez-Larkin, G. R., et al. “Financial decision making across adulthood.” The Psychological Science of Money, 2014, pp. 121–35. Scopus, doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-0959-9_6. Full Text
Knutson, B., and G. R. Samanez-Larkin. “Brain, Decision, and Debt.” A Debtor World: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Debt, 2013. Scopus, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199873722.003.0007. Full Text
Burr, Daisy A., et al. “Emotion dynamics across adulthood in everyday life: Older adults are more emotionally stable and better at regulating desires.” Emotion, Mar. 2020. Pubmed, doi:10.1037/emo0000734. Full Text
Löckenhoff, Corinna E., et al. “Age Effects in Sequence-Construction for a Continuous Cognitive Task: Similar Sequence-Trends but Fewer Switch-Points.” The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol. 75, no. 4, Mar. 2020, pp. 762–71. Epmc, doi:10.1093/geronb/gby090. Full Text
Löckenhoff, Corinna E., and Gregory R. Samanez-Larkin. “Age Differences in Intertemporal Choice: The Role of Task Type, Outcome Characteristics, and Covariates.” The Journals of Gerontology. Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol. 75, no. 1, Jan. 2020, pp. 85–95. Epmc, doi:10.1093/geronb/gbz097. Full Text
Castrellon, Jaime J., et al. “Mesolimbic dopamine D2 receptors and neural representations of subjective value.” Scientific Reports, vol. 9, no. 1, Dec. 2019, p. 20229. Epmc, doi:10.1038/s41598-019-56858-1. Full Text
Juarez, Eric J., et al. “Reproducibility of the correlative triad among aging, dopamine receptor availability, and cognition.” Psychology and Aging, vol. 34, no. 7, Nov. 2019, pp. 921–32. Epmc, doi:10.1037/pag0000403. Full Text
Karrer, Teresa M., et al. “Reduced serotonin receptors and transporters in normal aging adults: a meta-analysis of PET and SPECT imaging studies.” Neurobiology of Aging, vol. 80, Aug. 2019, pp. 1–10. Epmc, doi:10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2019.03.021. Full Text
Castrellon, Jaime, et al. Mesolimbic dopamine D2 receptors and neural representations of subjective value. Aug. 2019. Epmc, doi:10.1101/718858. Full Text
Seaman, Kendra L., et al. “Differential regional decline in dopamine receptor availability across adulthood: Linear and nonlinear effects of age.” Human Brain Mapping, vol. 40, no. 10, July 2019, pp. 3125–38. Epmc, doi:10.1002/hbm.24585. Full Text
Smith, Christopher T., et al. “Partial-volume correction increases estimated dopamine D2-like receptor binding potential and reduces adult age differences.” Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism : Official Journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism, vol. 39, no. 5, May 2019, pp. 822–33. Epmc, doi:10.1177/0271678X17737693. Full Text
Holland, Catherine A. C., et al. “Emotion identification across adulthood using the Dynamic FACES database of emotional expressions in younger, middle aged, and older adults.” Cognition & Emotion, vol. 33, no. 2, Mar. 2019, pp. 245–57. Epmc, doi:10.1080/02699931.2018.1445981. Full Text