Neural sensitivity to absolute and relative anticipated reward in adolescents.

Adolescence is associated with a dramatic increase in risky and impulsive behaviors that have been attributed to developmental differences in neural processing of rewards. In the present study, we sought to identify age differences in anticipation of absolute and relative rewards. To do so, we modif...

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Main Authors: Jatin G Vaidya, Brian Knutson, Daniel S O'Leary, Robert I Block, Vincent Magnotta
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3609767?pdf=render