Emotion regulation and cognitive control discrepancy on emotional go/no-go decreases with age¶
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q3 i? In a large behavioural go/no-go study, both emotion regulation and cognitive control improved with age, and the discrepancy between performance on emotional versus neutral no-go trials decreased with increasing age. → Ahmed Saz P. 2015
Evidence¶
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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A behavioural study of 100 participants aged 5-28 using an emotional go/no-go task with fearful, sad, angry and happy faces. Emotion regulation was defined as false alarm rate on emotional no-go trials; the review reports both improved with age while the emotional-neutral discrepancy narrowed.
"Both emotion regulation and cognitive control improved with increasing age, but importantly the discrepancy between the two decreased with increasing age, i.e. adults showed a smaller difference in performance in withholding responses in the presence of emotion relative to neutral faces than did children or adolescents."
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Emotion regulation and cognitive control discrepancy on emotional go/no-go decreases with age |
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Emotion regulation and cognitive control discrepancy on emotional go/no-go decreases with age |
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