Impending rewards improve adolescent antisaccade performance toward adult levels, accompanied by greater nucleus accumbens activation¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · review r2–r3 · q2
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Subclaims¶

q2 i? In the presence of impending rewards, adolescent antisaccade performance improves, approximating adult levels. → Constantinidis Christos 2019 q2 i? During rewarded antisaccade trials, adolescents show greater activation in the nucleus accumbens than adults. → Constantinidis Christos 2019 (2)

Evidence¶

Constantinidis Christos 2019¶

Constantinidis Christos, Luna Beatriz. (2019). Neural Substrates of Inhibitory Control Maturation in Adolescence. Trends in Neurosciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tins.2019.07.004

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The review reports, citing Geier and Luna, that impending rewards raise adolescent antisaccade performance toward adult levels, reflecting increased engagement of executive processes for reward receipt.

"in the presence of impending rewards AS performance in adolescence improves, approximating adult levels reflecting the ability to push the engagement of executive processes for the purpose of reward receipt [29]."

Constantinidis Christos 2019 (2)¶

Constantinidis Christos, Luna Beatriz. (2019). Neural Substrates of Inhibitory Control Maturation in Adolescence. Trends in Neurosciences. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tins.2019.07.004

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The review reports, citing fMRI studies, greater adolescent nucleus accumbens activation during rewarded antisaccade trials; adolescents also showed greater frontal eye field activity than adults during correct rewarded responses.

"Studies have found that during rewarded AS trials in adolescence, there is greater activation in the nucleus accumbens (NAcc) [60,61], a region rich in dopaminergic inputs and known to underlie reward processing [62,63]."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Age and Developmental Stage — moderator: an instructional effect differs with it

Related Claims¶

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