Neural correlates of expected risks and returns in risky choice across development
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Adolescence is often described as a period of increased risk taking relative to both childhood and adulthood. This inflection in risky choice behavior has been attributed to a neurobiological imbalance between earlier developing motivational systems and later developing top-down control regions. Yet few studies have decomposed risky choice to investigate the underlying mechanisms or tracked their differential developmental trajectory. The current study uses a risk–return decomposition to more precisely assess the development of processes underlying risky choice and to link them more directly to specific neural mechanisms. This decomposition specifies the influence of changing risks (outcome variability) and changing returns (expected value) on the choices of children, adolescents, and adults in a dynamic risky choice task, the Columbia Card Task. Behaviorally, risk aversion increased across age groups, with adults uniformly risk averse and adolescents showing substantial individual differences in risk sensitivity, ranging from risk seeking to risk averse. Neurally, we observed an adolescent peak in risk-related activation in the anterior insula and dorsal medial PFC. Return sensitivity, on the other hand, increased monotonically across age groups and was associated with increased activation in the ventral medial PFC and posterior cingulate cortex with age. Our results implicate adolescence as a developmental phase of increased neural risk sensitivity. Importantly, this work shows that using a behaviorally validated decision-making framework allows a precise operationalization of key constructs underlying risky choice that inform the interpretation of results.
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- Authors
- van Duijvenvoorde, A. C. K., Huizenga, H. M., Somerville, L. H., Delgado, M. R., Powers, A., Weeda, W. D., Casey, B. J., Weber, E. U., & Figner, B.
- Affiliations
- University of Amsterdam (NL)
- Harvard University (US)
- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (US)
- Cornell University (US)
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL)
- Columbia University (US)
- Radboud University Nijmegen (NL)
- ORCID
- Venue
- The Journal of Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Society for Neuroscience
- Published
- 2015-01-28
- Volume
- 35
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 1549-1560
- ISSN
- 0270-6474 (ISSN-L)
- 1529-2401
- PMC
- PMC6795265
- OpenAlex
- W2086045708
- Cited by
- 141
- References
- 68
- Citations by year
- 2026: 6 · 2025: 11 · 2024: 12 · 2023: 9 · 2022: 10 · 2021: 13 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 17 · 2017: 10 · 2016: 11 · 2015: 12
- FWCI
- 10.02
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- VU Research Portal (publishedVersion)
- Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion)
- Leiden Repository (Leiden University) (submittedVersion)
- UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Radboud Repository (Radboud University) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion, other-oa)
- Funders
- National Science Foundation (0922743)
- Schweizerischer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der Wissenschaftlichen Forschung (15327)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Social Sciences › Decision Sciences › General Decision Sciences › Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
- Keywords
- decision making under risk, adolescence, risk aversion, risk sensitivity, Columbia Card Task, anterior insula, dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, ventromedial prefrontal cortex, posterior cingulate cortex, developmental trajectories, individual differences
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Aging, Brain, Brain Mapping, Child, Choice Behavior, Female, Games, Experimental, Humans, Image Processing, Computer-Assisted, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Motivation, Oxygen, Risk-Taking, Young Adult
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