Developmental continuity in reward-related enhancement of cognitive control

Adolescents engage in more risky behavior than children or adults. The most prominent hypothesis for this phenomenon is that brain systems governing reward sensitivity and brain systems governing self-regulation mature at different rates. Those systems governing reward sensitivity mature in advance...

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Main Authors: Nicole M. Strang, Seth D. Pollak
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-10-01
Series:Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929314000474