Influences of affective context on amygdala functional connectivity during cognitive control from adolescence through adulthood.

ABSTRACT: Emotion processing is believed to dominate over other brain functions during adolescence, including inhibitory control. However, few studies have examined the neural underpinnings of affective states during cognitive control. Here, we characterized the brain in an affective state by cross-sectionally assessing age-related changes in amygdala background connectivity during an affective inhibitory control task. Participants completed an antisaccade (AS) fMRI task while affective auditory stimuli were presented, and a 5-minute resting state scan. Results showed that while adolescents reported similar arousal levels across emotional conditions, adults perceived negative sounds to be more "arousing" and performed better than adolescents in negative trials. Amygdala background connectivity showe

SUBMITTER: Ravindranath O 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7451790 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature