Feeling left out or just surprised? Neural correlates of social exclusion and overinclusion in adolescence.

ABSTRACT: Social belonging is an important human drive that influences mood and behavior. Neural responses to social exclusion are well-characterized, but the specificity of these responses to processing rejection-related affective distress is unknown. The present study compares neural responses to exclusion and overinclusion, a condition that similarly violates fairness expectations but does not involve rejection, with a focus on implications for models of dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) and anterior insula (AI) function. In an fMRI adaptation of the Cyberball paradigm with adolescents aged 11.1-17.7 years (N = 69), we employed parametric modulators to examine scaling of neural signal with cumulative exclusion and inclusion events, an approach that overcomes arbitrary definitions of conditi

SUBMITTER: Cheng TW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7338003 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature