Win for your kin: Neural responses to personal and vicarious rewards when mothers win for their adolescent children.

ABSTRACT: Mother-child relationships change considerably in adolescence, but it is not yet understood how mothers experience vicarious rewards for their adolescent children. In the current study, we investigated neural responses of twenty mothers winning and losing money for their best friend and for their adolescent child in a gambling task. During the task, functional neuroimaging data were acquired. We examined the activation patterns when playing for or winning for self, adolescent children and friends in four a-priori selected ROIs (nucleus accumbens, dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, precuneus and temporo-parietal junction). Behaviorally, mothers indicated that they experienced most enjoyment when they gained money for their children and that their children deserved to win more, relative to frien

SUBMITTER: Spaans JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5991740 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature