Perceptual Decision-Making in Children: Age-Related Differences and EEG Correlates.

ABSTRACT: Children make faster and more accurate decisions about perceptual information as they get older, but it is unclear how different aspects of the decision-making process change with age. Here, we used hierarchical Bayesian diffusion models to decompose performance in a perceptual task into separate processing components, testing age-related differences in model parameters and links to neural data. We collected behavioural and EEG data from 96 6- to 12-year-old children and 20 adults completing a motion discrimination task. We used a component decomposition technique to identify two response-locked EEG components with ramping activity preceding the response in children and adults: one with activity that was maximal over centro-parietal electrodes and one that was maximal over occipital electr

SUBMITTER: Manning C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7870772 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature