Abstract:Developmental cognitive neuroscience models attribute the increasing engagement insubstance use during adolescence to within-person changes in the functional balancebetween the neural systems underlying incentive processing and cognitive control. Inreviewing existing evidence for these models, we find that the evidence is suggestive,with adolescents high in sensation-seeking and low in impulse control, for example,being at increased risk for substance use. However, the experimental designs and analytictechniqu… Show more
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