Change, stability, and instability in the Pavlovian guidance of behaviour from adolescence to young adulthood.

ABSTRACT: Pavlovian influences are important in guiding decision-making across health and psychopathology. There is an increasing interest in using concise computational tasks to parametrise such influences in large populations, and especially to track their evolution during development and changes in mental health. However, the developmental course of Pavlovian influences is uncertain, a problem compounded by the unclear psychometric properties of the relevant measurements. We assessed Pavlovian influences in a longitudinal sample using a well characterised and widely used Go-NoGo task. We hypothesized that the strength of Pavlovian influences and other 'psychomarkers' guiding decision-making would behave like traits. As reliance on Pavlovian influence is not as profitable as precise instrumental d

SUBMITTER: Moutoussis M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6329529 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature