Incentive Motivation, Cognitive Control, and the Adolescent Brain: Is It Time for a Paradigm Shift?
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It can be argued that adolescents’ decision making is biased more by motivational factors than by cognitively driven calculations of outcome probabilities. Brain-based models, derived from structural and functional neuroimaging perspectives to account for this bias, have focused on purported differences in rates of development of motivational and regulatory-control systems. This article proposes a neurochemically based framework for understanding adolescents’ behavioral biases and suggests that there should be an increased focus on the dopaminergic substrates of incentive motivation, which increases into adolescence and decreases thereafter. The article also discusses the manner in which this increase interacts with executive control systems in affecting self-regulation.
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This theoretical article argues that adolescent decision-making is biased more by dopamine-driven incentive motivation than by insufficient cognitive control, and it proposes a paradigm shift toward studying the dopaminergic substrates of incentive motivation. It hypothesizes that incentive motivation follows a quadratic developmental trajectory—increasing into adolescence and declining thereafter—while executive control develops linearly, so self-regulation failures reflect high demand on an otherwise adultlike control system.
Key findings
- The paper proposes that during adolescence the capacity for control is adultlike, but demand is high and exceeds levels typical of other developmental stages; this high demand, driven by increased incentive motivation, taxes the control system and impedes self-regulation.
- Incentive motivation is said to increase from childhood to adolescence and decline into adulthood, supported by self-report, behavioral, animal, and limited fMRI evidence; the authors cite that roughly 50% of a large sample of typically developing youth in midadolescence performed as well as adults on a composite measure of cognitive capacity (Steinberg et al., 2009).
- Adolescent dopamine changes include peaks in DA tissue concentrations, alterations in DA transporter density, and declines in D1 and D2 receptor densities from early puberty; the model hypothesizes that tonic DA rises in early adolescence, phasic learning signals are weakly or inconsistently detected unless rewards are highly salient, phasic signals amplify with salient reward pursuit, and phasic signals decline as learning consolidates.
- Executive control is proposed to develop linearly into the 20s, while incentive motivation follows a quadratic function; behavior is biased toward successful control when incentive motivational drive is relatively low, and trait-based individual differences likely interact with these age trends.
Methods
- Theoretical/conceptual article with no new empirical data; it synthesizes animal, human pharmacological, molecular genetic, behavioral, and neuroimaging evidence to propose a neurochemically based framework.
- Main analysis is a narrative review and model proposal, including figures (not shown in text) depicting tonic/phasic DA interplay and the intersection of quadratic incentive motivation with linear executive control.
- The authors call for future direct tests of dopamine systems in human adolescents via pharmacological challenge and PET imaging, computational modeling of tonic and phasic dopamine, and imaging genetics.
Limitations
- Stated: the model describes only one form of motivation (positive incentive) and holds constant other sources of motivation, such as punishment sensitivity, that likely affect behavior.
- Stated: supportive evidence for the proposed tonic/phasic DA interplay relies entirely on animal and computational models; developmental theory has not been incorporated into these approaches, and the account is speculative. Dopamine systems have not been directly tested in human adolescents.
- Evident from the text: the fMRI literature is complicated by paradigmatic differences, failures to find age-related differences, and some observed effects in the nonpredicted direction; no direct human adolescent dopamine data are presented.
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High demand taxes the control system and impedes self-regulation.
“This high demand, which we believe to be normative, taxes the control system and impedes self-regulation.”
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Heightened IM serves as a starting point to direct behavior toward novel contexts.
“Thus, heightened IM serves as a starting point to direct behavior toward novel contexts.”
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Incentive motivation declines from adolescence into adulthood.
“An accumulation of evidence suggests an increase in incentive motivation from childhood to adolescence and a decline from adolescence into adulthood (Luciana, Wahlstrom, Porter, & Collins, 2012; Steinberg, 2010).”
- Also stated in: § CHANGES IN INCENTIVE MOTIVATION FROM CHILDHOOD TO ADULTHOOD · hedged
“Finally, IM declines after adolescence, as indicated by animal evidence (Spear, 2000), as well as by behavioral self-reports (Harden & Tucker-Drob, 2011; Steinberg et al., 2009; Urosevic et al., 2012 and by the aforementioned fMRI studies, which demonstrate decreased activity in reward structures, such as the nucleus accumbens, when adults anticipate rewards and when they receive feedback about”
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The high demand during adolescence is normative.
“This high demand, which we believe to be normative, taxes the control system and impedes self-regulation.”
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During adolescence, the capacity for control is adultlike.
“The primary thesis of this discussion is that during adolescence, the capacity for control is adultlike, but demand is high, exceeding levels typically present during other developmental stages.”
- Also stated in: § IMPLICATIONS FOR EXECUTIVE CONTROL AND THE ACHIEVEMENT OF SELF-REGULATION · hedged
“even though executive capacity is, for the most part, adultlike (Conklin et al. 2007; Crone & van der Molen, 2004; Luna et al. 2004).”
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Human adolescents self-report greater reward responsiveness than do adults.
“Moreover, human adolescents self-report greater reward responsiveness than do adults (Urosevic, Collins, Muetzel, Lim, & Luciana, 2012.”
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Self-reported sensation-seeking, incorporating aspects of IM, increases from early to middle adolescence before declining into adulthood.
“Self-reported sensation-seeking, incorporating aspects of IM, increases from early to middle adolescence before declining into adulthood, as evidenced by cross-sectional (Steinberg et al., 2010) and longitudinal (Harden & Tucker-Drob, 2011) work.”
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The source of the high demand lies in a dopamine-driven developmental increase in incentive motivation.
“We propose that the source of the high demand lies in a dopamine-driven developmental increase in incentive motivation, which serves a number of adaptive functions.”
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IM is neurally mediated by circuitry that includes the midbrain tegmental region, the striatum, core limbic regions such as the extended amygdala, the anterior cingulate, and medial regions of the orbitofrontal cortex.
“IM is neurally mediated by circuitry that includes the midbrain tegmental region, the striatum, core limbic regions such as the extended amygdala, the anterior cingulate, and medial regions of the orbitofrontal cortex (Depue & Collins, 1999).”
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Incentive motivation increases from childhood to adolescence.
“An accumulation of evidence suggests an increase in incentive motivation from childhood to adolescence and a decline from adolescence into adulthood (Luciana, Wahlstrom, Porter, & Collins, 2012; Steinberg, 2010).”
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Variations in human DA function underlie individual differences in IM-related traits.
“Moreover, variations in human DA function underlie individual differences in IM-related traits (Dreher, Kohn, Kolanchana, Weinberger, & Berman, 2009; Wacker, Chavanon, & Stemmler, 2006; Zald, Cowan, Ricccardi, Baldwin, Ansari, Shelby, et al., 2008).”
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A quadratic function may exist on behavioral and biological levels with respect to incentive motivated behavior between childhood and adulthood.
“Together, these lines of evidence support the idea that a quadratic function may exist on behavioral and biological levels with respect to incentive motivated behavior between childhood and adulthood.”
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Functional MRI studies provide limited supportive evidence that, relative to children, adolescents show increased responses in regions of the brain's reward system when they anticipate or receive rewards or view rewarding stimuli.
“Functional MRI studies provide limited supportive evidence that, relative to children, adolescents show increased responses in regions of the brain’s reward system when they anticipate or receive rewards or view rewarding stimuli (Cohen et al., 2010; Galvan, Hare, Parra, Penn, Voss, et al., 2006; Somerville, Hare, & Casey, 2010; van Leijenhorst, Zannoli, VanMeel, Westerberg, Rombouts, & Crone, 201”
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Examinations of probabilistic learning from positive and negative feedback suggest age-related changes in the processing of predicted rewards.
“Examinations of probabilistic learning from positive and negative feedback suggest age-related changes in the processing of predicted rewards (Cohen, Asarnow, Sabb, Bilder, Bookheimer, Knowlton, & Poldrack 2010).”
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During adolescence, demand on the control system is high, exceeding levels typically present during other developmental stages.
“The primary thesis of this discussion is that during adolescence, the capacity for control is adultlike, but demand is high, exceeding levels typically present during other developmental stages.”
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Phasic firing occurs in response to salient events, particularly during reward learning.
“Phasic firing occurs in response to salient events, particularly during reward learning (Schulz et al., 2000, Willuhn, et al. 2010).”
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Dopamine modulates activity within the IM circuitry to promote IM.
“Numerous animal, human pharmacological, and molecular genetic studies indicate that dopamine (DA) modulates activity within this circuitry to promote IM (Depue & Collins, 1999; Koob & Volkow, 2010).”
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There are distinct substrates within the dopamine system for the generation of IM outside of learning and then for the influence of this motivational state on learned behavior.
“Importantly, then, there are distinct substrates within the dopamine system for the generation of IM outside of learning and then for the influence of this motivational state on learned behavior.”
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A quadratic function may exist with respect to incentive motivation.
“Thus, a quadratic function may exist with respect to incentive motivation, while a linear function may exist with respect to the development of executive control.”
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Other sources of motivation (e.g., punishment sensitivity) have an impact on behavior.
“holding constant other sources of motivation (i.e., punishment sensitivity) that most certainly have an impact on behavior (Ernst et al., 2006).”
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This calculation allows the individual to make contingency-based decisions.
“This calculation allows the individual to make contingency-based decisions.”
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A linear function may exist with respect to the development of executive control.
“Thus, a quadratic function may exist with respect to incentive motivation, while a linear function may exist with respect to the development of executive control.”
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- Rests on an assumption: The neural structures and connections that putatively support executive skills continue developing into the 20s.
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The same regulatory failures would occur in adulthood if the same level of incentive motivation were present.
“Critically, the same regulatory failures would occur in adulthood if the same level of incentive motivation were present.”
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When the medial orbitofrontal cortex receives outcome-related signals during reward learning, a calculation of the outcome's expected value occurs.
“For instance, when the medial orbitofrontal cortex receives outcome-related signals during reward learning, a calculation of the outcome’s expected value occurs (Tobler et al., 2007).”
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Through interactions with prefrontal circuitry, increased tonic DA alters the efficiency and flexibility of control processes.
“Through interactions with prefrontal circuitry, increased tonic DA alters the efficiency and flexibility of control processes (Goto et al., 2007).”
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Behavior is biased toward successful control when incentive motivational drive is relatively low.
“As indicated in the figure, behavior is biased toward successful control when incentive motivational drive is relatively low.”
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Biologically determined trait-based individual differences very likely interact with age-based trends to determine developmental outcomes.
“Importantly, biologically determined trait-based individual differences very likely interact with these age-based trends to determine developmental outcomes (Wahlstrom et al. 2010).”
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These relations hold regardless of maturation level.
“Importantly, these relations hold regardless of maturation level.”
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When reward delivery is fully predictable from experience, phasic firing declines, indicating that learning is established.
“When reward delivery is fully predictable from experience, phasic firing declines, indicating that learning is established (Schultz et al., 2000).”
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Under novel conditions, the executive burden may become too strong for adolescents to manage.
“Under novel conditions, the executive burden may become too strong for adolescents to manage.”
Quote in the paperSubstantial claim- Rests on an assumption: Adolescent self-regulation falters under conditions of high stress or high demand.
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Even those with a fully developed executive control system might experience regulatory failures if information-processing demands are sufficiently high or if executive resources are depleted.
“Even those with a fully developed (i.e., structurally intact and fully interconnected) executive control system might experience regulatory failures if information-processing demands are sufficiently high or if executive resources are depleted (Baumeister et al.,1998).”
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In situations where adolescent self-regulation falters under high stress or high demand, the cognitive resources exist but the demands on the system are high, rather than an inability to recruit sufficient cognitive resources.
“Rather than characterizing such situations as executive failures due to an inability to recruit sufficient cognitive resources, it should be recognized that the resources exist but that demands on the system are high.”
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The inverted-U-shaped trajectory described in Figure 2 is not convincingly explained by structural brain changes, or by increasing cortical-subcortical or even whole-brain connectivity.
“The inverted-U-shaped trajectory described in Figure 2 is not convincingly explained by structural brain changes, or by increasing cortical-subcortical or even whole-brain connectivity.”
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A differential between tonic and phasic signal amplitudes permits an organism to detect the phasic signal.
“A differential between tonic and phasic signal amplitudes (a high signal-to-noise ratio or a low noise-to-signal ratio) permits an organism to detect the phasic signal.”
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Supportive evidence for the proposed interplay between tonic and phasic modes of DA activity and effects on behavior relies entirely on animal and computational models.
“Supportive evidence for this proposed interplay between tonic and phasic modes of DA activity and effects on behavior relies entirely on animal and computational models (Niv et al., 2007; Willuhn, 2010).”
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The intersection of the quadratic incentive motivation function and the linear executive control function determines behavioral biases in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.
“The intersection of these functions, depicted in Figure 2, determines behavioral biases in childhood, adolescence, and adulthood, respectively.”
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If tonic levels are high, environmental cues must be salient (high in reward value) to promote learning.
“If tonic levels are high, environmental cues must be salient (high in reward value) to promote learning.”
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Substance use affects the dopamine system's neuroplasticity in ways that can alter subsequent development.
“Substance use, for instance, affects the dopamine system’s neuroplasticity in ways that can alter subsequent development (Koob & Volkow, 2010).”
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A complete account of adolescent behavior cannot be achieved without inclusion of a broader range of motivations and their interactions with regulatory control systems.
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Roughly 50% of a large sample of typically developing youth in midadolescence performed as well as adults on a composite measure of cognitive capacity.
“Indeed, it was recently demonstrated that roughly 50% of a large sample of typically developing youth in midadolescence performed as well as adults on a composite measure of cognitive capacity (Steinberg et al., 2009).”
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The inverted-U-shaped trajectory described in Figure 2 is potentially explained by neurochemical changes.
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As individuals are required to manage increasing quantities of information, the age at which that amount of information can be effectively managed increases.
“But as individuals are required to manage increasing quantities of information, the age at which that amount of information can be effectively managed increases (Luciana et al., 2005), supporting the idea that the executive control system is taxed under high demand and that the ability to meet increasing demand increases with age.”
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Adolescent animals are similarly drawn to novelty.
“Within the confines of their controlled environments, adolescent animals are similarly drawn to novelty (Douglas, Varlinskaya & Spear, 2003; Stansfield & Kirstein, 2006).”
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Adolescents' behaviors in motivational and psychosocial contexts often fall short of what would be expected on the basis of their otherwise strong levels of ability or available resources.
“Adolescents’ behaviors in motivational and psychosocial contexts often fall short of what would be expected on the basis of their otherwise strong levels of ability or available resources (Hooper et al., 2004; Steinberg et al., 2009).”
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PremisecitationBrain-based theories emphasize dynamics between subcortically centered neural systems that promote motivation and prefrontally guided executive networks that mediate control processes.
“Brain-based theories emphasize dynamics between subcortically centered neural systems that promote motivation and prefrontally guided executive networks that mediate control processes (Casey, Jones, & Hare, 2008; Ernst, Pine, & Hardin, 2006; Steinberg, 2010).”
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InterpretationreasoningIncentive motivation serves a critical adaptive function.
“Importantly, this motivation serves a critical adaptive function, given that novel contexts serve as learning environments for immediate reward acquisition and long-term goal formation.”
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PremisecitationDuring adolescence, there are peaks in DA tissue concentrations, alterations in DA transporter density, and changes in densities of D1 and D2 receptor subtypes in the striatum and prefrontal cortex, which decline from levels observed in early puberty.
“During adolescence, there are peaks in DA tissue concentrations (Andersen, Dumont, & Teicher, 1997), alterations in DA transporter density (Coulter, Happe, & Murrin, 1996; Moll et al., 2000), and changes in densities of both D1 and D2 receptor subtypes in the striatum and prefrontal cortex, which decline from levels observed in early puberty (Andersen, Thompson, Krenzel, & Teicher, 2002; Seeman, B”
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PremisecitationSystems that mediate working memory and other control functions can become overloaded due to capacity constraints or depleted when loads exceed an optimal range, with negative impacts on efficiency.
“However, systems that mediate working memory and other control functions can become overloaded due to capacity constraints (Callicott et al., 1999; Yun, Krystal, & Mathalon, 2010) or depleted when loads exceed an optimal range (Baumeister, Brazlavsky, Muraven, & Tice, 1998), with negative impacts on efficiency.”
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PremisecitationApproach to, rather than avoidance of, novelty reflects positive motivation.
“Approach to, rather than avoidance of, novelty reflects positive motivation (Beckmann, Marusich, Gipson, & Bardo, 2011; Powell, Geyer, Gallagher, & Paulus, 2004).”
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PremisecitationTonic DA levels are largely independent of environmental triggers and may index an individual's level of incentive-related drive.
“Tonic DA levels are largely independent of environmental triggers and may index an individual’s level of incentive-related drive (Niv et al, 2007; Willuhn, Wanat, Clark, & Phillips, 2010).”
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PremisecitationPhasic bursts are large when an organism encounters novel rewarding stimuli or when cues during learning indicate the possibility of a valued reward when reward delivery is uncertain.
“Phasic bursts are large when an organism encounters novel rewarding stimuli (Schultz et al., 2000) or when cues during learning indicate the possibility of a valued reward when reward delivery is uncertain.”
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PremisecitationOpenness to experience increases dramatically between ages 12 to 16, driven primarily by an increased appreciation of aesthetics and alternative value systems.
“Openness to experience, relative to other major personality traits, increases dramatically between ages 12 to 16 (McCrae et al., 2002), driven primarily by an increased appreciation of aesthetics and alternative value systems.”
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InterpretationcitationAn adolescent-limited increase in IM confers evolutionary advantages and promotes learning, encouraging a sense of agency as youth transition to adult independence.
“An adolescent-limited increase in IM is a positive development that may confer evolutionary advantages and that serves ultimately--through the promotion of learning--to encourage a sense of agency as youth make the transition to adult independence (Spear, 2000; Wahlstrom et al., 2010).”
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PremisecitationHigh-incentive states are characterized by positive attentional biases, approach-related motor behavior, and subjective states of anticipatory engagement, especially under novel conditions.
“High-incentive states are characterized by positive attentional biases, approach-related motor behavior, and subjective states of anticipatory engagement, especially under novel conditions (Depue & Collins, 1999; Segerstrom, 2001; Vollstadt-Klein, Loeber, Richter, Kirsch, Bach et al., 2011).”
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PremisecitationThis literature is complicated by paradigmatic differences across studies and failures to find age-related differences, as well as by some observed effects in the nonpredicted direction.
“This literature is complicated, though, by paradigmatic differences across studies and failures to find age-related differences, as well as by some observed effects in the nonpredicted direction (Bjork, Knutson, Fong, Caggiano, Bennett, & Homer, 2004; Bjork, Smith, Chen, & Hommer, 2010; May, Delgado, Dahl, Stenger, Ryan, Fiez, & Carter, 2004).”
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PremisecitationIM is distinct from sensation-seeking in that the latter construct is predominantly arousal-based and valence-free.
“IM is distinct from sensation-seeking in that the latter construct is predominantly arousal-based and valence-free (Zuckerman, 1994).”
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PremisecitationIf arousal is high or if one is fatigued or preoccupied, then the executive burden is elevated and regulation may be difficult.
“If arousal is high or if one is fatigued or preoccupied, then the executive burden is elevated (e.g., Killgore, 2010; Yerkes & Dodson, 1908) and regulation may be difficult.”
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Study design and conductreasoningDevelopmental theory has not been incorporated into these approaches.
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InterpretationcitationThe executive control system is taxed under high demand and the ability to meet increasing demand increases with age.
“But as individuals are required to manage increasing quantities of information, the age at which that amount of information can be effectively managed increases (Luciana et al., 2005), supporting the idea that the executive control system is taxed under high demand and that the ability to meet increasing demand increases with age.”
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PremisecitationThe pursuit of friendships with new groups and explorations of novel clothing, foods, music, and spiritual beliefs increase in adolescence.
“The pursuit of friendships with new groups and explorations of novel clothing, foods, music, and spiritual beliefs increase (Czikszentmihalyi, Larson, & Prescott, 1977; King & Roeser, 2009; Zillman & Gan, 1997).”
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Interpretationnone givenNeurochemical substrates of drive states such as incentive motivation are potentially broader in scope and more dynamic than those emphasized within the field thus far.
“These substrates are potentially broader in scope and more dynamic than those emphasized within the field thus far.”
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Interpretationnone givenAn increase in IM occurs during adolescence, which places a high demand on the executive system, adding considerably to the system's burden, and influencing the extent to which self-regulation can be consistently achieved.
“Our view is that an increase in IM occurs during adolescence, which places a high demand on the executive system, adding considerably to the system’s burden, and influencing the extent to which self-regulation can be consistently achieved.”
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Novel contexts serve as learning environments for immediate reward acquisition and long-term goal formation.
“given that novel contexts serve as learning environments for immediate reward acquisition and long-term goal formation.”
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Young adolescents lack experience.
“Given that young adolescents lack experience, there needs to be a means of assuring exposure to unfamiliar contexts so that outcomes associated with consolidated learning will become available to guide future behavior.”
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There needs to be a means of assuring exposure to unfamiliar contexts so that outcomes associated with consolidated learning will become available to guide future behavior.
“Given that young adolescents lack experience, there needs to be a means of assuring exposure to unfamiliar contexts so that outcomes associated with consolidated learning will become available to guide future behavior.”
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Adolescents can be enormously competent in their levels of executive function.
“This research has revealed that adolescents can be enormously competent in their levels of executive function”
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Adolescent self-regulation falters under conditions of high stress or high demand.
“self-regulation falters under conditions of high stress or high demand”
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Executive skills continue developing into the 20s.
“the continuing development of executive skills into the 20s”
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The neural structures and connections that putatively support executive skills continue developing into the 20s.
“the continuing development of the neural structures and connections that putatively support such development”
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In typically functioning people, there is a general age-related decline in the activity of the incentive system due to declines in dopamine signaling.
“However, this is rarely the case (on average, in the typically functioning person) due to a general age-related decline in the activity of the incentive system due to declines in dopamine signaling.”
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Dopamine systems have not been directly tested in human adolescents even though technology exists to facilitate such assessment.
“dopamine systems have not been directly tested in human adolescents even though the technology exists to facilitate such an assessment..”
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There is a preponderance of animal evidence in support of neurochemical change as a substrate for adolescent-limited increases in incentive motivation.
“Given the preponderance of animal evidence in support of neurochemical change as a substrate for adolescent-limited increases in incentive motivation”
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Most developmental neuroscience literature has focused on developmental differences in the striatum, and more specifically in the ventral portion of the striatum, which is considered one of the main regions involved in the calculation of reward.
“To date, most of the developmental neuroscience literature has focused on developmental differences in the striatum, and more specifically in the ventral portion of the striatum, which is considered one of the main regions involved in the calculation of reward (Knutson et al., 2001, Luciana and Collins, 2012).”
From The dual systems model: Review, reappraisal, and reaffirmation (2016) · cites this paper as Luciana and Collins, 2012
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Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThe volume of the nucleus accumbens increases during the first part of adolescence and then shrinks thereafter.
“There is evidence, for example, that the volume of the nucleus accumbens (part of the ventral striatum and presumed to be the central structure in the reward system) increases during the first part of adolescence and then shrinks thereafter (Luciana and Collins, 2012).”
From The dual systems model: Review, reappraisal, and reaffirmation (2016) · cites this paper as Luciana and Collins, 2012
In “Changes in Incentive Motivation from Childhood to Adulthood,” the paper describes changing nucleus accumbens activity during reward processing, not its volume. The “Adolescent Changes in the Dopamine System” section discusses dopamine and receptor densities; searches for accumbens volume and structural size found no passage establishing the claimed increase followed by shrinkage. Page numbers were unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.75)
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredThese developmental changes include increases in synaptic pruning and myelination, as well as increases in the availability of dopamine in the limbic circuitry.
“These changes include increases in synaptic pruning and myelination107,171, as well as increases in the availability of dopamine in the limbic circuitry172,173.”
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Dopamine availability increases during adolescence.
“Dopamine availability increases during adolescence (11,12)”
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- Authors
- Luciana, M., & Collins, P. F.
- Affiliations
- University of Minnesota (US)
- Corresponding author
- Luciana, Monica
- ORCID
- Luciana, Monica
- Venue
- Child Development Perspectives
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2012-11-14
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- 6
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 392-399
- ISSN
- 1750-8592 (ISSN-L)
- 1750-8606
- PMC
- PMC3607661
- OpenAlex
- W2079788156
- Semantic Scholar
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- Cited by
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- en
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- Funders
- National Institute on Drug Abuse
- 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 decision-making, incentive motivation, cognitive control, executive function, self-regulation, dopaminergic system, dopamine, brain development, motivational bias
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.
Claims read by deepseek-v4.1-flash under definition version 3 (extract-v3) on 2026-10-10.
Classified by jev-1.13-20260917 (gold-guideline-v0.2) on 2026-10-10.
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 ›
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