Task-irrelevant negative images disrupt no-go accuracy specifically in early-mid adolescence¶
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q3 i? In a go/no-go task with task-irrelevant negative background images, lower accuracy on no-go trials in the presence of negative images was seen specifically in adolescents aged 13-14 years and in girls aged 15-16. → 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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A study of 100 participants aged 11-25 using a go/no-go task with letters over negative, positive, neutral or scrambled IAPS backgrounds. The review reports slower RTs for negative trials across all ages but no-go accuracy deficits specific to early-mid adolescents.
"However, lower accuracy on no-go trials in the presence of negative images was seen specifically in adolescents aged 13–14 years (and in girls aged 15–16). Thus, negative emotional inputs appear to disrupt regulatory efforts more easily in early-mid adolescence even when the emotional information is not directly relevant to the task."
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Task-irrelevant negative images disrupt no-go accuracy specifically in early-mid adolescence |
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Task-irrelevant negative images disrupt no-go accuracy specifically in early-mid adolescence |
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2015 |
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