Spatial and temporal cortical variability track with age and affective experience during emotion regulation in youth.

ABSTRACT: Variability is a fundamental feature of human brain activity that is particularly pronounced during development. However, developmental neuroimaging research has only recently begun to move beyond characterizing brain function exclusively in terms of magnitude of neural activation to incorporate estimates of variability. No prior neuroimaging study has done so in the domain of emotion regulation. We investigated how age and affective experiences relate to spatial and temporal variability in neural activity during emotion regulation. In the current study, 70 typically developing youth aged 8 to 17 years completed a cognitive reappraisal task of emotion regulation while undergoing functional MRI. Estimates of spatial and temporal variability during regulation were calculated across a network

SUBMITTER: Guassi Moreira JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6716618 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature