Stability and change in emotional processing across development: A 6-year longitudinal investigation using event-related potentials.

ABSTRACT: ERPs reveal the temporal dynamics of emotional processing and are easily assessed in children. Yet, little longitudinal research has examined ERPs sensitive to emotion across development. We aimed to systematically identify timing and spatial distributions of ERPs sensitive to emotion in a longitudinal sample of youth (N = 62) using principal component analysis (PCA) and evaluate stability and change in emotional responses across development. Participants completed an emotional interrupt paradigm in childhood (M_age  = 9.38, SD = 0.42), early adolescence (M_age  = 13.03, SD = 0.24), and midadolescence (M_age  = 15.16, SD = 0.17). ERPs were recorded to unpleasant, pleasant, and neutral images. Participants were instructed to respond to a target while viewing im

SUBMITTER: Pegg S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7164925 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature