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Changing Brains, Changing Perspectives: The Neurocognitive Development of Reciprocity
Abstract
Adolescence is characterized by the emergence of advanced forms of social perspective taking and significant changes in social behavior. Yet little is known about how changes in social cognition are related to changes in brain function during adolescence. In this study, we investigated the neural correlates of social behavior during three phases of adolescence, carrying out functional magnetic resonance imaging of participants' brains while they were Player 2 in the Trust Game. We found that with age, adolescents were increasingly sensitive to the perspective of the other player, as indicated by their reciprocal behavior. These advanced forms of social perspective-taking behavior were associated with increased involvement of the left temporo-parietal junction and the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. In contrast, young adolescents showed more activity in the anterior medial prefrontal cortex, a region previously associated with self-oriented processing and mentalizing. These findings suggest that the asynchronous development of these neural systems may underlie the shift from thinking about self to thinking about the other.
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“supporting the idea that the ability to understand the intentions of others increases into adulthood.”
From Is Adolescence a Sensitive Period for Sociocultural Processing? (2014) · cites this paper as van den Bos et al. 2011
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“This heightened activation in the dmPFC for reciprocal choices decreased between early and late adolescence and remained stable into early adulthood, possibly reflecting a shift away from engaging in social interactions from an egocentric perspective (van den Bos et al. 2011).”
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“Older adolescents and emerging adults were more likely to reciprocate when the first player stood to lose more money, whereas the younger adolescents did not differentiate, supporting the idea that the ability to understand the intentions of others increases into adulthood.”
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“The recruitment of the left TPJ when participants were shown that the first player trusted them increased with age, and this level of activation correlated with participants' sensitivity to the first player's intentions.”
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“showed greater recruitment in the dmPFC when making self-oriented choices (defecting), but only young adolescents engaged this region when making reciprocal choices.”
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“Another emerging developmental pattern is a linear increase in TPJ responses during mentalizing (Gweon et al., 2012; van den Bos et al., 2011).”
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Metadata
- Authors
- van den Bos, W., van Dijk, E., Westenberg, M., Rombouts, S. A. R. B., & Crone, E. A.
- Affiliations
- Department of Psychology, Leiden University
- Leiden University (NL)
- Venue
- Psychological Science
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2010-12-16
- Volume
- 22
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 60-70
- ISSN
- 0956-7976 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-9280
- OpenAlex
- W2118321220
- Cited by
- 229
- References
- 41
- Citations by year
- 2026: 4 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 14 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 20 · 2018: 18 · 2017: 16 · 2016: 17 · 2015: 12 · 2014: 16 · 2013: 12 · 2012: 14
- FWCI
- 20.14
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychological Science (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) (publishedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- Leiden Repository (Leiden University) (submittedVersion)
- UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Action Observation and Synchronization
- Keywords
- adolescence, social perspective taking, social cognition, brain development, trust game, mutual trust, temporoparietal junction, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, anterior medial prefrontal cortex, mentalization
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Adult, Age Factors, Analysis of Variance, Brain, Brain Mapping, Child, Cognition, Female, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Reference Values, Social Behavior, Trust, Young Adult
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