Adolescents show disproportionately greater false alarms on happy no-go trials with heightened ventral striatum activity¶
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q3 i? In an fMRI go/no-go study, the false alarm rate on no-go happy trials relative to no-go neutral trials was disproportionately greater for adolescents than for either children or adults, paralleled by heightened ventral striatum activity. → Ahmed Saz P. 2015
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Ahmed Saz P. 2015¶
Ahmed Saz P., Bittencourt-Hewitt Amanda, Sebastian Catherine L. (2015). Neurocognitive bases of emotion regulation development in adolescence. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6989808/
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An fMRI study using an appetitive go/no-go variant with happy and calm face cues across children, adolescents and adults. The review reports the "disproportionately greater" adolescent false alarm rate on happy no-go trials, paralleled by heightened VS activity, consistent with subcortical-driven behaviour during adolescence.
"the false alarm rate on no-go ‘happy’ trials relative to no-go neutral trials was disproportionately greater for adolescents (aged 13–17) than for either children (aged 6–12) or adults (18–29) (Somerville et al., 2011). This adolescent-specific performance dip was paralleled by heightened activity in the VS"
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Related Claims¶
- Emotion regulation and cognitive control discrepancy on emotional go/no-go decreases with age — related
- In youth performing an n-back task without feedback, bilateral ventral striatum activates more strongly to correct than incorrect responses — related
- Task-irrelevant negative images disrupt no-go accuracy specifically in early-mid adolescence — related
- Task-relevant emotions affect response inhibition more strongly than task-irrelevant emotions, especially in young children — related
- Age correlates with detection performance: hits and d′ increase and false alarms decrease with age — related
- Ventral striatum activation to correct responses peaks in mid-adolescence at approximately age 16 — related
- The VS correct-greater-than-incorrect response is present for both target and foil trials and is not a motor confound — related
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adolescent-happy-nogo-false-alarm-ventral-striatum |
title |
Adolescents show disproportionately greater false alarms on happy no-go trials with heightened ventral striatum activity |
description |
Adolescents show disproportionately greater false alarms on happy no-go trials with heightened ventral striatum activity |
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review |
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moderate |
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2015 |
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2026-10-20 |
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2020 |
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by process:wiki-ingest on 2026-10-17 |
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