Cited by 225Neural and Behavioral Psychology StudiesNeurotransmitter Receptor Influence on BehaviorDecision-Making and Behavioral Economics

The maturation of incentive processing and cognitive control

Open access
Geier, Charles, Luna, Beatriz·2009·Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Abstract

Understanding how immaturities in the reward system affect decision-making can inform us on adolescent vulnerabilities to risk-taking, which is a primary contributor to mortality and substance abuse in this age group. In this paper, we review the literature characterizing the neurodevelopment of reward and cognitive control and propose a model for adolescent reward processing. While the functional neuroanatomy of the mature reward system has been well-delineated, adolescent reward processing is just beginning to be understood. Results indicate that adolescents relative to adults demonstrate decreased anticipatory processing and assessment of risk, but an increased consummatory response. Such differences could result in suboptimal representations of reward valence and value and bias adolescent decision-making. These functional differences in reward processing occur in parallel with on-going structural and pharmacological maturation in the adolescent brain. In addition to limitations in incentive processing, basic cognitive control abilities, including working memory and inhibitory control, continue to mature during adolescence. Consequently, adolescents may be limited, relative to adults, in their abilities to inhibit impulsive behaviors and reliably hold 'on-line' comparisons of potential rewards/punishments during decision-making.

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1016/j.pbb.2009.01.021

Cites

186 of 186 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Claims the paper makes

The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.

Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.

A few free checks a day · papers already verified open instantly · results are public

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

Self-check

Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.

The self-check needs the paper’s full text.

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Research works printed but not linked: 2

  1. Demetriou A Christou C Spanoudis G Platsidou M The development of mental processing: efficiency, working memory, and thinking Monogr Soc Res Child Dev 2002 67 1 155 [discussion 156] 12360826
  2. Giedd JN Blumenthal J Jeffries NO Castellanos FX Liu H Zijdenbos A Brain development during childhood and adolescence: a longitudinal MRI study Nat Neurosci 1999b 2 861 3 10491603

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Authors
Geier, C., & Luna, B.
Affiliations
University of Pittsburgh (US)
Corresponding author
Geier, Charles
Venue
Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2009-09
Volume
93
Issue
3
Pages
212-221
ISSN
0091-3057 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2063631727
Cited by
225
References
183
Citations by year
2026: 8 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 8 · 2021: 11 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 25 · 2017: 15 · 2016: 13 · 2015: 20 · 2014: 13 · 2013: 29 · 2012: 14
FWCI
1.48
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH080243, R01MH067924)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
Keywords
adolescent brain development, reward processing, incentive processing, cognitive control, decision-making, risk-taking, anticipatory processing, reward valence, working memory, inhibitory control, impulsivity
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Brain, Cognition, Humans, Memory, Short-Term, Reward

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review