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- Title
Decision-making in the adolescent brain.
- Authors
Blakemore, Sarah-Jayne; Robbins, Trevor W
- Abstract
Adolescence is characterized by making risky decisions. Early lesion and neuroimaging studies in adults pointed to the ventromedial prefrontal cortex and related structures as having a key role in decision-making. More recent studies have fractionated decision-making processes into its various components, including the representation of value, response selection (including inter-temporal choice and cognitive control), associative learning, and affective and social aspects. These different aspects of decision-making have been the focus of investigation in recent studies of the adolescent brain. Evidence points to a dissociation between the relatively slow, linear development of impulse control and response inhibition during adolescence versus the nonlinear development of the reward system, which is often hyper-responsive to rewards in adolescence. This suggests that decision-making in adolescence may be particularly modulated by emotion and social factors, for example, when adolescents are with peers or in other affective ('hot') contexts.
- Publication
Nature neuroscience, 2012, Vol 15, Issue 9, p1184
- ISSN
1546-1726
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1038/nn.3177