Sensitivity and specificity in affective and social learning in adolescence

E Towner, G Chierchia, SJ Blakemore - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2023 - cell.com
Adolescence is a period of heightened affective and social sensitivity. In this review we
address how this increased sensitivity influences associative learning. Based on recent …

The Lifespan Human Connectome Project in Development: A large-scale study of brain connectivity development in 5–21 year olds

LH Somerville, SY Bookheimer, RL Buckner… - Neuroimage, 2018 - Elsevier
Recent technological and analytical progress in brain imaging has enabled the examination
of brain organization and connectivity at unprecedented levels of detail. The Human …

Neurodevelopmental Theories of Adolescent Decision Making: Overview and Implications for Consumer Behavior

E Beard, V Venkatraman… - Journal of the Association …, 2024 - journals.uchicago.edu
Adolescence represents a unique period of the lifespan, characterized by heightened
susceptibility to social feedback and increased autonomy in a wide range of choice …

The interplay of resting and inhibitory control‐related theta‐band activity depends on age

C Pscherer, A Bluschke, M Mückschel… - Human Brain …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Resting‐state neural activity plays an important role for cognitive control processes.
Regarding response inhibition processes, an important facet of cognitive control, especially …

How adolescents and adults translate motivational value to action: Age-related shifts in strategic physical effort exertion for monetary rewards.

AM Rodman, KE Powers, C Insel… - Journal of …, 2021 - psycnet.apa.org
Adults titrate the degree of physical effort they are willing to expend according to the
magnitude of reward they expect to obtain, a process guided by incentive motivation …

Comparison of functional connectivity in the prefrontal cortex during a simple and an emotional Go/No-Go task in female versus male groups: an fNIRS study

T Nguyen, EE Condy, S Park, BH Friedman… - Brain sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Inhibitory control is a cognitive process to suppress prepotent behavioral responses to
stimuli. This study aimed to investigate prefrontal functional connectivity during a behavioral …

Valence bias in metacontrol of decision making in adolescents and young adults

F Bolenz, B Eppinger - Child Development, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The development of metacontrol of decision making and its susceptibility to framing effects
were investigated in a sample of 201 adolescents and adults in Germany (12–25 years, 111 …

Adolescent-to-adult gains in cognitive flexibility are adaptively supported by reward sensitivity, exploration, and neural variability

AC Parr, VJ Sydnor, FJ Calabro, B Luna - Current Opinion in Behavioral …, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•Different forms of cognitive flexibility show dissociable developmental
trajectories.•An adolescent-specific mode of flexibility scaffolds adult-like cognitive …

Information about others' choices selectively alters risk tolerance and medial prefrontal cortex activation across adolescence and young adulthood

BR Braams, JY Davidow, LH Somerville - Developmental Cognitive …, 2021 - Elsevier
Adolescence is associated with major changes in the cognitive, emotional and social
domains. One domain in which these processes intersect is decision-making. Previous …

From learned value to sustained bias: how reward conditioning changes attentional priority

KN Meyer, JB Hopfinger, EM Vidrascu… - Frontiers in Human …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Attentional bias to reward-associated stimuli can occur even when it interferes
with goal-driven behavior. One theory posits that dopaminergic signaling in the striatum …