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Probing the neural correlates of anticipated peer evaluation in adolescence

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Guyer, Amanda E, McClure-Tone, Erin B, Shiffrin, Nina D, Pine, Daniel S, Nelson, Eric E·2009·Child Development

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Neural correlates of social-cognition were assessed in 9- to- 17-year-olds (N = 34) using functional magnetic resonance imaging. Participants appraised how unfamiliar peers they had previously identified as being of high or low interest would evaluate them for an anticipated online chat session. Differential age- and sex-related activation patterns emerged in several regions previously implicated in affective processing. These included the ventral striatum, hippocampus, hypothalamus, and insula. In general, activation patterns shifted with age in older relative to younger females but showed no association with age in males. Relating these neural response patterns to changes in adolescent social-cognition enriches theories of adolescent social development through enhanced neurobiological understanding of social behavior.

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  • Adolescents are highly responsive to social rewards from positive peer evaluation, and these rewards activate the same brain regions as non-social rewards.

    “there is evidence that adolescents are highly responsive to the social rewards afforded by positive peer evaluation and that such rewards activate the same brain regions as non-social rewards (Guyer et al., 2009).”

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  • In Guyer et al. (2009), in females only, there was an age-related increase in activity during expectation of peer evaluation, within brain regions involved in affective processing (nucleus accumbens, hypothalamus, hippocampus and insula), but no differences within the ACC or other social brain regions.

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Authors
Guyer, A. E., McClure-Tone, E. B., Shiffrin, N. D., Pine, D. S., & Nelson, E. E.
Affiliations
  • Georgia State University (US)
  • National Institute of Mental Health
  • National Institute of Mental Health (US)
Corresponding author
Guyer, Amanda E
Venue
Child Development
Published
2009-07-01
Volume
80
Issue
4
Pages
1000-1015
ISSN
  • 0009-3920 (ISSN-L)
  • 1467-8624
OpenAlex
W1987708266
Cited by
239
References
88
Citations by year
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FWCI
7.45
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • Child Development (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • Digital Archive @ GSU (submittedVersion)
  • Counseling And Psychological Services Dissertations (Georgia State University) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (ZIA‐MH002781)
  • National Institute of Mental Health (R00MH080076, ZIAMH002780, K99 MH080076, ZIAMH002782)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Keywords
social development (developmental psychology), neural correlates, ventral striatum, hippocampus, hypothalamus, insula, emotional processing, age differences, sex differences, online chat
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Age Factors, Attitude, Basal Ganglia, Brain, Cerebral Cortex, Cognition, Communication, Female, Hippocampus, Humans, Hypothalamus, Interpersonal Relations, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Motivation, Neural Pathways, Peer Group, Social Behavior, Social Perception, Internet

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