Anticipatory representations of reward and threat in perceptual areas from preadolescence to late adolescence

This study examined whether changes in perceptual processes can partially account for the increase in reward-orientated behaviour during adolescence. This was investigated by examining reinforcement-dependent potentiation to discriminative stimuli (SD) that predicted rewarding or threatening outcome...

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Main Authors: Philippa Howsley, Liat Levita
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2017-06-01
Series:Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929316300615