Attentional capture by emotional faces in adolescence

Grose-Fifer, Jill; Hoover, Steven; Rodrigues, Andrea; Zottoli, Tina M.

doi:10.1167/9.8.114

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“…Here, larger inter-individual variance in difference scores arose: only one third also decreased and about two third of the participants showed a stable individual difference score, presumably due to lower variance in difference scores. Overall, the behavioral longitudinal improvement shown in GAMMs for both RT and percentage of errors is in line with a previous analysis of this task from age 14–16 ( Vetter et al, 2015 ) and studies of adolescent emotional attention ( Cohen-Gilbert and Thomas, 2013 , Grose-Fifer et al, 2013 ). Interestingly, at age 18 and 22 participants made more errors when matching negative versus neutral and at age 22 also positive versus neutral pictures (see Figure S3 in the supplements), which was not seen at ages 14 or 16.…”

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Adolescent to young adult longitudinal development across 8 years for matching emotional stimuli during functional magnetic resonance imaging

Vetter

Fröhner

Hoffmann

et al. 2022

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

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Adolescent to young adult longitudinal development across 8 years for matching emotional stimuli during functional magnetic resonance imaging

Vetter

Fröhner

Hoffmann

et al. 2022

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

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“…Thus, adolescents seem to be specifically sensitive toward distracting emotional stimuli. This pattern is also evident in a task that assesses the attentional inhibition of a distracting emotional incongruent flanking stimulus presented together with the task-relevant stimulus: Adolescents had larger interference effects for negative distractors and overall lower accuracy than adults (Grose-Fifer et al, 2013). Taken together, ignoring task-irrelevant emotional distractor stimuli undergoes developmental changes during adolescence.…”

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Mid-adolescent neurocognitive development of ignoring and attending emotional stimuli

Vetter

Pilhatsch

Weigelt

et al. 2015

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

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Appropriate reactions toward emotional stimuli depend on the distribution of prefrontal attentional resources. In mid-adolescence, prefrontal top-down control systems are less engaged, while subcortical bottom-up emotional systems are more engaged. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to follow the neural development of attentional distribution, i.e. attending versus ignoring emotional stimuli, in adolescence. 144 healthy adolescents were studied longitudinally at age 14 and 16 while performing a perceptual discrimination task. Participants viewed two pairs of stimuli--one emotional, one abstract--and reported on one pair whether the items were the same or different, while ignoring the other pair. Hence, two experimental conditions were created: "attending emotion/ignoring abstract" and "ignoring emotion/attending abstract". Emotional valence varied between negative, positive, and neutral. Across conditions, reaction times and error rates decreased and activation in the anterior cingulate and inferior frontal gyrus increased from age 14 to 16. In contrast, subcortical regions showed no developmental effect. Activation of the anterior insula increased across ages for attending positive and ignoring negative emotions. Results suggest an ongoing development of prefrontal top-down resources elicited by emotional attention from age 14 to 16 while activity of subcortical regions representing bottom-up processing remains stable.

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“…In a simulation study, Yeung and Cohen (2006) showed that the ERN and the N2 could be sensitive to relevant and irrelevant stimulus information, respectively. Further, the ERN is modulated by affective cues (Larson et al, 2006), which may be related to the disruption of inhibition in an affective context (Noël et al, 2007;Grose-Fifer et al, 2013). To our knowledge, acute alcohol effects on conflict monitoring in the context of motivationally relevant alcohol cues has not been investigated yet in drinking adolescents.…”

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Alcohol-Induced Changes in Conflict Monitoring and Error Detection as Predictors of Alcohol Use in Late Adolescence

Korucuoglu

Gladwin

Wiers

2014

Neuropsychopharmacol

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Adolescence is a vulnerable period for the development of substance use and related problems. Understanding how exposure to drugs influences the adolescent brain could reveal mechanisms underlying risk for addiction later in life. In the current study, 87 adolescents (16-20-year olds; the local legal drinking age was16, allowing the inclusion of younger subjects than usually possible) underwent EEG measurements during a Go/No-Go task with and without alcohol cues; after placebo and a low dose of alcohol (0.45 g/kg). Conflict monitoring and error detection processes were investigated with the N2 and the error-related negativity (ERN) ERP components. Participants were followed-up after 6 months to assess changes in alcohol use. The NoGo-N2 was larger for alcohol cues and acute alcohol decreased the amplitude of the NoGo-N2 for alcohol cues. ERN amplitude was blunted for alcohol cues. Acute alcohol decreased the amplitude of the ERN, specifically for control cues. Furthermore, the differences in ERN for alcohol cues between the placebo and alcohol conditions predicted alcohol use 6 months later: subjects who showed stronger blunting of the ERN after acute alcohol were more likely to return to more moderate drinking patterns. These results suggest that cues signalling reward opportunities might activate a go-response mode and larger N2 (detection of increased conflict) for these cues might be necessary for inhibition. The ERN results suggest a deficiency in the monitoring system for alcohol cues. Finally, a lack of alcohol-induced deterioration of error monitoring for cues with high salience might be a vulnerability factor for alcohol abuse in adolescents.

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Attentional capture by emotional faces in adolescence

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Adolescent to young adult longitudinal development across 8 years for matching emotional stimuli during functional magnetic resonance imaging

Adolescent to young adult longitudinal development across 8 years for matching emotional stimuli during functional magnetic resonance imaging

Mid-adolescent neurocognitive development of ignoring and attending emotional stimuli

Alcohol-Induced Changes in Conflict Monitoring and Error Detection as Predictors of Alcohol Use in Late Adolescence

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