Salience network response to changes in emotional expressions of others is heightened during early adolescence: relevance for social functioning.

ABSTRACT: Adolescence is a unique developmental period when the salience of social and emotional information becomes particularly pronounced. Although this increased sensitivity to social and emotional information has frequently been considered with respect to risk behaviors and psychopathology, evidence suggests that increased adolescent sensitivity to social and emotional cues may confer advantages. For example, greater sensitivity to shifts in the emotions of others is likely to promote flexible and adaptive social behavior. In this study, a sample of 54 children and adolescents (age 8-19 years) performed a delayed match-to-sample task for emotional faces while undergoing fMRI scanning. Recruitment of the anterior cingulate and anterior insula when the emotion of the probe face did not match the

SUBMITTER: Rosen ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5709230 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature