Inhibitory Control During Emotional Distraction Across Adolescence and Early Adulthood
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This study investigated the changing relation between emotion and inhibitory control during adolescence. One hundred participants between 11 and 25 years of age performed a go-nogo task in which task-relevant stimuli (letters) were presented at the center of large task-irrelevant images depicting negative, positive, or neutral scenes selected from the International Affective Picture System. Longer reaction times for negative trials were found across all age groups, suggesting that negative but not positive emotional images captured attention across this age range. However, age differences in accuracy on inhibitory trials suggest that response inhibition is more readily disrupted by negative emotional distraction in early adolescence relative to late childhood, late adolescence, or early adulthood.
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TD youth show increased ability to regulate negative emotion with age.
“TD youth also show increased ability to regulate negative emotion with age.”
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The Discussion reports that older adolescents maintained inhibitory accuracy during negative emotional distraction better than younger adolescents. But the finding is not a general, steady increase in the ability to regulate negative emotion with age: early adolescents performed worse than both older adolescents and late-childhood participants, and the Limitations section says the study cannot distinguish regulatory ability from the salience of the negative images. Page numbers are unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.85)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredSlower reaction times were found across all age groups for negative trials in a go/no-go task with task-irrelevant negative, positive, neutral or scrambled background images.
“Slower reaction times were found across all age groups for negative trials.”
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Some studies have found evidence of a non-linear trajectory, with increased interference in mid-adolescence compared with earlier childhood.
“some studies have found evidence of a non-linear trajectory, with increased interference in mid-adolescence compared with earlier childhood (e.g. Cohen-Gilbert and Thomas, 2013).”
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Lower accuracy on no-go trials in the presence of negative images was seen specifically in adolescents aged 13-14 years and in girls aged 15-16.
“lower accuracy on no-go trials in the presence of negative images was seen specifically in adolescents aged 13–14 years (and in girls aged 15–16).”
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- Authors
- Cohen-Gilbert, J. E., & Thomas, K. M.
- Affiliations
- University of Minnesota
- University of Minnesota (US)
- ORCID
- Thomas, Kathleen M
- Venue
- Child Development
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2013-11-01
- Volume
- 84
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1954-1966
- ISSN
- 0009-3920 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-8624
- PMC
- PMC3688699
- OpenAlex
- W2106876266
- Cited by
- 134
- References
- 61
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- FWCI
- 4.37
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- Locations
- Child Development (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- Center for Neurobehavioral Development (NIH T32 MH73129)
- Center for Cognitive Sciences (NIH T32 HD007151)
- University of Minnesota
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology › Developmental and Educational Neuropsychology
- Keywords
- inhibitory control, emotional distraction, adolescence, early adulthood, response inhibition, emotional attention, go/no-go task, age differences, emotional valence
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Age Factors, Attention, Child, Discrimination, Psychological, Emotions, Female, Humans, Inhibition, Psychological, Male, Neuropsychological Tests, Photic Stimulation, Psychomotor Performance, Reaction Time, Sex Factors, Young Adult
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