Incentives facilitate developmental improvement in inhibitory control by modulating control-related networks.

ABSTRACT: Adolescence is a period of heightened sensitivity to incentives and relatively weak cognitive control, which may contribute to risky behaviors. Studies of brain activity have generally identified greater activation of the ventral striatum to rewards and less activation of prefrontal regions during control tasks in adolescents compared to adults. Little is known, however, about age-related changes in the functional brain networks underlying incentive processing and cognitive control. This cross-sectional study characterized the effects of incentives on inhibitory control during an oculomotor task using whole-brain functional connectivity analyses. During an fMRI scan, one hundred forty typically developing individuals completed an incentivized antisaccade task consisting of incentive cue, p

SUBMITTER: Hallquist MN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5910226 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature