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Longitudinal Change in the Neural Bases of Adolescent Social Self-Evaluations: Effects of Age and Pubertal Development
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Self-evaluations undergo significant transformation during early adolescence, developing in parallel with the heightened complexity of teenagers' social worlds. Intuitive theories of adolescent development, based in part on animal work, suggest that puberty is associated with neural-level changes that facilitate a “social reorientation” (Nelson et al., 2005). However, direct tests of this hypothesis using neuroimaging are limited in humans. This longitudinal fMRI study examined neurodevelopmental trajectories associated with puberty, self-evaluations, and the presumed social reorientation during the transition from childhood to adolescence. Participants (N= 27, mean age = 10.1 and 13.1 years at time points one and two, respectively) engaged in trait evaluations of two targets (the self and a familiar fictional other), across two domains of competence (social and academic). Responses in ventromedial PFC increased with both age and pubertal development during self-evaluations in the social domain, but not in the academic domain. These results suggest that changes in social self-evaluations are intimately connected with biology, not just peer contexts, and provide important empirical support for the relationship between neurodevelopment, puberty, and social functioning.
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In a longitudinal fMRI study of 27 youths scanned at mean ages 10.1 and 13.1, ventral mPFC responses during self- versus other-evaluations increased with age, specifically in the social domain. Pubertal development, independent of age, was associated with this social-domain increase, supporting a neural component to adolescent social reorientation.
Key findings
- Ventral mPFC [-9 45 -12, t = 4.5, k = 14] showed longitudinal increases from age 10 to 13 for self > other evaluations; this was the only region across the whole brain to show such increases.
- The ventral mPFC increase was significant in the social domain (p = .0001) but marginal in the academic domain (p = .0556).
- Pubertal development (PDS at age 13 controlling for PDS at age 10, residualized for age) correlated with increased ventral mPFC self > other response in the social domain (r(25) = 0.53, p < .005), but not academic domain (r(25) = 0.11, ns); these correlations differed (z = 2.25, p = .025).
- Stable main effects: self > other engaged mPFC and ventral striatum; other > self engaged mPPC, lateral PFC, and TPJ.
Methods
- Longitudinal fMRI with 27 neurotypical participants (18 female), no psychiatric, neurological, or learning disorders, scanned at T1 (M = 10.1, SD = 0.35) and T2 (M = 13.1, SD = 0.33).
- Participants made trait evaluations of self and a familiar fictional other (Harry Potter) in social and academic domains; pubertal development was measured with the Pubertal Development Scale (PDS).
- fMRI data acquired on Siemens Allegra 3T and analyzed in SPM8 using random effects; paired t-tests and a 2×2×2 ANOVA with Target (Self/Other), Domain (Social/Academic), and Age (T1/T2); results thresholded at p < .001, k = 10 voxels unless noted.
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- Stated: the tight age range may attenuate the PDS-age correlation, and future studies should track both dorsal and ventral mPFC during self-evaluations to determine when each region peaks.
- Evident: the sample is small (N = 27) and predominantly female (18 female), and pubertal development was self-reported via PDS; no explicit limitations section is included in the paper.
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“At T1, there was no relationship between chronological age and pubertal development (r(25) = 0.04, ns).”
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“These analyses demonstrated that the increase in ventral mPFC response was significant in the social domain (p = .0001), but marginal in the academic domain (p = .0556).”
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“Because there were no significant gender differences in PDS scores at either timepoint (female Ms = 1.66 and 2.66, male Ms = 1.60 and 2.40, ns), analyses collapsed across gender to increase statistical power”
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“and these two correlations were significantly different (z = 2.25, p = .025).”
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“This confirmed that the three clusters reported in Table 1 to survive FWE correction (mPFC and VS for self > other, mPPC for other > self) were indeed responsive at both timepoints.”
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“Additionally, correlations between pubertal development and responses in this ventral mPFC ROI during evaluations of self versus other in the social domain were consistent across gender (r(16) = 0.45 for girls, r(7) = 0.74 for boys, ps = .06 and .02, respectively).”
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“These analyses demonstrated that the increase in ventral mPFC response was significant in the social domain (p = .0001), but marginal in the academic domain (p = .0556).”
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“Responses in mPFC (rostral and dorsal ACC) as well as VS were greater during self-evaluations, while responses in mPPC, lateral PFC, and temporoparietal junction (TPJ) were greater during other-evaluations.”
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“There was a highly significant increase from T1 to T2 on the PDS (Ms = 1.64 and 2.58, SDs = 0.46 and 0.68 at T1 and T2, respectively; t(1, 26) = 7.95, p≃ 0).”
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“Finally, supplementary whole-brain analyses indicated that pubertal development was not significantly positively or negatively correlated with longitudinal changes in any other brain regions when collapsing across domains.”
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“At T2, chronological age and pubertal development were moderately correlated in the expected direction, although this was only a trend (r(25) = 0.29, one-tailed p = .07).”
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“Intuitive theories of adolescent development, based in part on animal work, suggest that puberty is associated with neural-level changes that facilitate a “social reorientation” (Nelson, Leibenluft, McClure, and Pine, 2005).”
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“For example, pubertal development is thought to fuel a “social reorientation” (Nelson et al., 2005) that heightens the salience of peer relations.”
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“As a result, social self-concepts (evaluative self-knowledge pertaining to the peer domain) might be in a state of considerable flux and sensitivity.”
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“Yet we know very little about how changes in brain function relate to adolescent self-development, and in particular we lack information about longitudinal changes in the neural correlates of self-evaluations across social and academic domains.”
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“In this study, levels of sex steroid hormones positively correlated with responses in left temporal pole during social emotion processing (embarrassment and guilt, as compared with basic emotion processing of fear and disgust). Meanwhile, age (controlling for pubertal development) negatively correlated with activity in dorsal (but not ventral) mPFC, making the findings complementary.”
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“Prior studies also linked pubertal development either with structural metrics (Bramen et al., 2011; Peper, Pol, Crone, and Van Honk, 2011), or with responses elicited by socioemotional or rewarding stimuli (Forbes et al., 2010; Forbes et al., 2011; Moore et al., 2012; Op de Macks et al., 2011).”
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“Reviews of the neural systems supporting adult self-evaluations have converged on a set of critical regions, predominantly focusing on cortical midline structures (CMS): medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC, including rostral anterior cingulate cortex, ACC) and medial posterior parietal cortex (mPPC; Northoff, Qin, and Feinberg, 2011; Van Overwalle, 2009).”
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“Thus, while dorsal mPFC may be more engaged in late childhood during self-evaluations, ventral mPFC may be increasingly recruited in early adolescence.”
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“Furthermore, this same region of ventral mPFC differentiates between self and others in neurotypical adults, but fails to do so in adults and adolescents with autism spectrum disorders (ASD; Lombardo et al., 2010; Pfeifer et al., 2013).”
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“Furthermore, excluding these two participants from correlational analyses relating to pubertal development did not change the results.”
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“Existing animal work demonstrates that puberty affects neurodevelopment of structures and transmitters strongly implicated in social behavior (Ahmed et al., 2008; Romeo 2003; Schulz et al., 2009; Sisk and Zehr, 2005), but studies directly testing the theorized associations between neural, pubertal, and social changes in adolescent humans are still few in number.”
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“This suggests executive functions, memory, and perspective-taking are implicated in other-evaluations.”
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“Ventral mPFC is not only associated with self-referential processing (Northoff et al., 2011; Van Overwalle, 2009), but also with reward and valuation processes (Chib, Rangel, Shimojo, and O’Doherty, 2009; Hare, Camerer, and Rangel, 2009; Rangel, Camerer, and Montague, 2008).”
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“In other words, while academic self-evaluations may change due to contextual factors like school transitions (Eccles et al., 1993), social self-evaluative change is intimately connected with biology and not just interpersonal contexts.”
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“In each run, participants demonstrated < 5% of images with bad slices detected and fixed by ARTrepair, and < 0.5 mm mean image-to-image motion or < 5 mm max (single) image-to-image motion.”
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“However, direct tests of this hypothesis using neuroimaging are limited in humans.”
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“Transitioning from elementary to middle school, meanwhile, is known to significantly impact academic self-concepts (Eccles, Wigfield, Harold, and Blumenfield, 1993) – they become more negative overall, and academic engagement decreases.”
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“In the present study, assessing evaluative processing in an academic domain (which is comparatively much less social and more objective by definition; Denissen, Zarrett, and Eccles, 2007; Hymel et al., 1999) likewise allowed us to conduct an empirical test that provided strong support – at the neural level – for the “social reorientation” teenagers are proposed to experience (Nelson et al., 2005).”
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“Results were also the same whether correlations between ventromedial PFC activity were conducted using raw or residualized PDS scores, perhaps due to the borderline moderate correlation between PDS and age at T2 only.”
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“Variability in knowledge across timepoints was not significantly correlated with brain activity extracted from the region of ventral mPFC that demonstrated longitudinal increases during self > other evaluations.”
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“Objectively, each participant reported reading at least one book, or watching at least three movies, from the series.”
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“The other target was a fictional character, Harry Potter, about whom participants all had substantial knowledge (as indicated via questionnaire).”
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“It should be noted that two participants (one girl and one boy) each “regressed” by less than one point on average in their self-reports of pubertal development, but the presence and proportion of “regressions” in this sample is highly consistent with that reported in other longitudinal research using the PDS (e.g., Petersen et al., 1988).”
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“Also falling within our medial cluster of activation, ventromedial PFC and medial OFC activation likely reflects engagement in social cognitive processes, consistent with past research that has associated these regions with social and self-relevant evaluative processes (Burnett et al., 2011; Pfeifer et al., 2013; 2011).”
From Neural correlates of social exclusion across ages: A coordinate-based meta-analysis of functional MRI studies (2017) · cites this paper as Pfeifer et al., 2013
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§ Longitudinal change in the neural bases of adolescent social self-evaluations: Effects of age and pubertal development > Materials & Methods
“Each of the four blocks was 75 seconds long, and included the 20 stimulus trials (ordered pseudorandomly) and five null events during which no phrase was presented. Blocks were separated by 21 seconds of rest.”
§ Longitudinal change in the neural bases of adolescent social self-evaluations: Effects of age and pubertal development > Materials & Methods
“The functional scan lasted 4 minutes and 54 seconds”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Pfeifer, J. H., Kahn, L. E., Merchant, J. S., Peake, S. J., Veroude, K., Masten, C. L., Lieberman, M. D., Mazziotta, J. C., & Dapretto, M.
- Affiliations
- University of Oregon (US)
- Vanderbilt University (US)
- University of California, Los Angeles (US)
- Venue
- The Journal of Neuroscience
- Publisher
- Society for Neuroscience
- Published
- 2013-04-24
- Volume
- 33
- Issue
- 17
- Pages
- 7415-7419
- ISSN
- 0270-6474 (ISSN-L)
- 1529-2401
- PMC
- PMC3809090
- OpenAlex
- W2111384114
- Semantic Scholar
- 806a68425132229cf6a4f65bdeb386f8655cf67d
- Cited by
- 125
- References
- 39
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- FWCI
- 4.57
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Journal of Neuroscience (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-sa)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- VU Research Portal (publishedVersion)
- Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (RR12169, RR13642)
- National Institute of Mental Health (L40MH087356, F31MH075299)
- National Center for Research Resources (P41RR013642, RR12169, RR 13642, RR00865, M01RR000865, C06RR012169)
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (L40HD059442)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
- Keywords
- pubertal development, ventromedial prefrontal cortex, neural development, transition from childhood to adolescence, trait evaluation, social competence, academic competence, age effects
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Brain, Child, Female, Humans, Longitudinal Studies, Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Male, Photic Stimulation, Puberty, Self-Assessment, Adolescent Development
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