Emotional reactivity and its impact on neural circuitry for attention–emotion interaction in childhood and adolescence

Attention modulation when confronted with emotional stimuli is considered a critical aspect of executive function, yet rarely studied during childhood and adolescence, a developmental period marked with changes in these processes. We employed a novel, and child-friendly fMRI task that used emotional...

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Main Authors: Susan B. Perlman, Tyler C. Hein, Stephanie D. Stepp
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-04-01
Series:Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878929313000522