Mata, R., Helversen, B. von, & Rieskamp, J. (2011). When easy comes hard: The development of adaptive strategy selection. Child Development, 82(2), 687–700. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-8624.2010.01535.x
Mata, R., & Hertwig, R. (2011). How to model age-related motivational reorientations in risky choice: Commentary on Depping and Freund. Human Development, 54(6), 368–375. https://doi.org/10.1159/000334943
Mata, R., Josef, A., Samanez-Larkin, G., & Hertwig, R. (2011). Age differences in risky choice: A meta-analysis. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1235, 18–29. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2011.06200.x
Helversen, B. von, Mata, R., & Olsson, H. (2010). Do children profit from looking beyond looks? From similarity-based to cue abstraction processes in multiple-cue judgment. Developmental Psychology, 46(1), 220–229. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0016690
Mata, R., Helversen, B. von, & Rieskamp, J. (2010). Learning to choose: Cognitive aging and strategy selection learning in decision making. Psychology and Aging, 25(2), 299–309. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0018923
Mata, R., Wilke, A., & Czienskowski, U. (2009). Cognitive aging and adaptive foraging behavior. The Journals of Gerontology: B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, 64B(4), 474–481. https://doi.org/10.1093/geronb/gbp035
Pachur, T., Mata, R., & Schooler, L. J. (2009). Cognitive aging and the adaptive use of recognition in decision making. Psychology and Aging, 24(4), 901–915. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0017211
Gaissmaier, W., Schooler, L. J., & Mata, R. (2008). An ecological perspective to cognitive limits: Modeling environment-mind interactions with ACT-R. Judgment and Decision Making, 3(3), 278–291.
Mata, R., Schooler, L. J., & Rieskamp, J. (2007). The aging decision maker: Cognitive aging and the adaptive selection of decision strategies. Psychology and Aging, 22(4), 796–810. https://doi.org/10.1037/0882-7974.22.4.796
Brighton, H. J., Mata, R., & Wilke, A. (2006). Reconciling vague and formal models of language evolution. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 29(3), 282–282.
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