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Neural responses to social and monetary reward in early adolescence and emerging adulthood

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Ethridge, Paige, Kujawa, Autumn, Dirks, Melanie A., Arfer, Kodi B., Kessel, Ellen M., Klein, Daniel N., Weinberg, Anna·2017·Psychophysiology

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Reward processing is often considered to be a monolithic construct, with different incentive types eliciting equivalent neural and behavioral responses. The majority of the literature on reward processing has used monetary incentives to elicit reward-related activity, yet social incentives may be particularly important due to their powerful ability to shape behavior. Findings from studies comparing social and monetary rewards have identified both overlapping and distinct responses. In order to explore whether reward processing is domain general or category specific (i.e., the same or different across reward types), the present study recorded ERPs from early adolescents (ages 12-13) and emerging adults (ages 18-25) while they completed social and monetary reward tasks. Temporospatial principal components analysis revealed morphologically similar reward positivities (RewPs) in the social and monetary reward tasks in each age group. In early adolescents, no significant difference was found between the magnitude of the RewP to social and monetary rewards. In emerging adults, however, the RewP to monetary rewards was significantly larger than the RewP to social rewards. Additionally, responses to feedback between the two tasks were not significantly correlated in either age group. These results suggest that both domain-general and category-specific processes underlie neural responses to rewards and that the relative incentive value of different types of rewards may change across development. Findings from this study have important implications for understanding the role that neural response to rewards plays in the development of psychopathology during adolescence.

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Authors
Ethridge, P., Kujawa, A., Dirks, M. A., Arfer, K. B., Kessel, E. M., Klein, D. N., & Weinberg, A.
Affiliations
  • McGill University (CA)
  • Pennsylvania State University (US)
  • University of California, Los Angeles (US)
  • Stony Brook University (US)
Corresponding author
Weinberg, Anna
Venue
Psychophysiology
Publisher
Wiley
Published
2017-07-12
Volume
54
Issue
12
Pages
1786-1799
ISSN
  • 0048-5772 (ISSN-L)
  • 1469-8986
OpenAlex
W2734591901
Cited by
96
References
103
Citations by year
2026: 7 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 14 · 2021: 8 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 11
FWCI
5.02
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Psychophysiology (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • Canada Research Chairs
  • National Institute of Mental Health (RO1 MH069942)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural dynamics and brain function
Keywords
reward processing, social reward, monetary rewards, early adolescence, emerging adulthood, reward positivity, event-related potentials, incentive value, feedback response, adolescent development, psychopathology
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Brain, Child, Evoked Potentials, Female, Humans, Motivation, Reinforcement, Social, Reward, Social Behavior, Young Adult

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