Basic emotion processing and the adolescent brain: Task demands, analytic approaches, and trajectories of changes
Early neuroimaging studies suggested that adolescents show initial development in brain regions linked with emotional reactivity, but slower development in brain structures linked with emotion regulation. However, the increased sophistication of adolescent brain research has made this picture more c...
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doaj-0227a67a6a584210927d5d7f4132404f2020-11-24T21:11:45ZengElsevierDevelopmental Cognitive Neuroscience1878-92931878-93072016-06-0119C17418910.1016/j.dcn.2016.03.005Basic emotion processing and the adolescent brain: Task demands, analytic approaches, and trajectories of changesLarissa B. Del PieroDarby E. SaxbeGayla MargolinEarly neuroimaging studies suggested that adolescents show initial development in brain regions linked with emotional reactivity, but slower development in brain structures linked with emotion regulation. However, the increased sophistication of adolescent brain research has made this picture more complex. This review examines functional neuroimaging studies that test for differences in basic emotion processing (reactivity and regulation) between adolescents and either children or adults. We delineated different emotional processing demands across the experimental paradigms in the reviewed studies to synthesize the diverse results. The methods for assessing change (i.e., analytical approach) and cohort characteristics (e.g., age range) were also explored as potential factors influencing study results. Few unifying dimensions were found to successfully distill the results of the reviewed studies. However, this review highlights the potential impact of subtle methodological and analytic differences between studies, need for standardized and theory-driven experimental paradigms, and necessity of analytic approaches that are can adequately test the trajectories of developmental change that have recently been proposed. Recommendations for future research highlight connectivity analyses and non-linear developmental trajectories, which appear to be promising approaches for measuring change across adolescence. Recommendations are made for evaluating gender and biological markers of development beyond chronological age.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929315300621AdolescenceDevelopmentEmotion regulationEmotional reactivityNeuroimaging |
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Basic emotion processing and the adolescent brain: Task demands, analytic approaches, and trajectories of changes |
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Basic emotion processing and the adolescent brain: Task demands, analytic approaches, and trajectories of changes |
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Basic emotion processing and the adolescent brain: Task demands, analytic approaches, and trajectories of changes |
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basic emotion processing and the adolescent brain: task demands, analytic approaches, and trajectories of changes |
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Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience |
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1878-9293 1878-9307 |
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Early neuroimaging studies suggested that adolescents show initial development in brain regions linked with emotional reactivity, but slower development in brain structures linked with emotion regulation. However, the increased sophistication of adolescent brain research has made this picture more complex. This review examines functional neuroimaging studies that test for differences in basic emotion processing (reactivity and regulation) between adolescents and either children or adults. We delineated different emotional processing demands across the experimental paradigms in the reviewed studies to synthesize the diverse results. The methods for assessing change (i.e., analytical approach) and cohort characteristics (e.g., age range) were also explored as potential factors influencing study results. Few unifying dimensions were found to successfully distill the results of the reviewed studies. However, this review highlights the potential impact of subtle methodological and analytic differences between studies, need for standardized and theory-driven experimental paradigms, and necessity of analytic approaches that are can adequately test the trajectories of developmental change that have recently been proposed. Recommendations for future research highlight connectivity analyses and non-linear developmental trajectories, which appear to be promising approaches for measuring change across adolescence. Recommendations are made for evaluating gender and biological markers of development beyond chronological age. |
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Adolescence Development Emotion regulation Emotional reactivity Neuroimaging |
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