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Probing the Neural Correlates of Anticipated Peer Evaluation in Adolescence

Year: 2009

Type: article

Abstract: Neural correlates of social-cognition were assessed in 9- to- 17-year-olds (N = 34) using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Participants appraised how unfamiliar peers they had previously identified as being of high or low interest would evaluate them for an anticipated online chat session. Differential age- and sex-related activation patterns emerged in several regions previously implicated in affective processing. These included the ventral striatum, hippocampus, hypothalamus, and insula. In general, activation patterns shifted with age in older relative to younger females but showed no association with age in males. Relating these neural response patterns to changes in adolescent social-cognition enriches theories of adolescent social development through enhanced neurobiological understanding of social behavior.

Source: Child Development

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01313.x

Authors: Amanda E Guyer, Erin B McClure-Tone, Nina D Shiffrin, Daniel S Pine, Eric E Nelson

Institutions: Georgia State University, National Institute of Mental Health, National Institute of Mental Health

Language: English

Topic: Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Subfield: Cognitive Neuroscience

Field: Neuroscience

Domain: Life Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funders: National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health