Decrease in decision noise from adolescence into adulthood mediates an increase in more sophisticated choice behaviors and performance gain

• Vanessa Scholz ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: scholz_v@ukw.de (VS); deserno_l@ukw.de (LD)

  Affiliations Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Centre of Mental Health, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour, Radboud University, Nijmegen, the Netherlands

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7980-9659

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• Maria Waltmann,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Centre of Mental Health, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany

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• Nadine Herzog,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany, IFB Adiposity Diseases, Leipzig University Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany

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• Annette Horstmann,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany, IFB Adiposity Diseases, Leipzig University Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Psychology and Logopedics, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

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• Lorenz Deserno

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: scholz_v@ukw.de (VS); deserno_l@ukw.de (LD)

  Affiliations Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Centre of Mental Health, University of Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany, IFB Adiposity Diseases, Leipzig University Medical Center, Leipzig, Germany, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany

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