Metacontrol instructions lead to adult-like event segmentation in adolescents.

ABSTRACT: Event segmentation, which involves dividing continuous information into meaningful units, changes as children develop into adolescents. Adolescents tend to segment events more coarsely than adults. This study explores whether adolescents could adjust their segmentation style to resemble that of adults when provided with explicit metacontrol-related instructions. We compared event segmentation in two adolescent groups and one adult group, while simultaneously recording EEG data. One adolescent group was instructed to perform segmentation as finely as possible, whereas the other adolescent group and adults received no specific instructions on segmentation granularity. EEG data were analyzed using multivariate pattern analysis and source reconstruction. The findings revealed that adolescents

SUBMITTER: Zhou X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11833649 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature