The neurocognitive correlates of academic diligence in adolescent girls.

ABSTRACT: Academic diligence is the ability to regulate behavior in the service of goals, and a predictor of educational attainment. Here we combined behavioral, structural MRI, functional MRI and connectivity data to investigate the neurocognitive correlates of diligence. We assessed whether individual differences in diligence are related to the interplay between frontal control and striatal reward systems, as predicted by the dual-systems hypothesis of adolescent development. We obtained behavioral measures of diligence from 40 adolescent girls (aged 14-15 years) using the Academic Diligence Task. We collected structural imaging data for each participant, as well as functional imaging data during an emotional go-no-go self-control task. As predicted by the dual-systems hypothesis, we found that in

SUBMITTER: Fuhrmann D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6373776 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jan - Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature