The neurodevelopment of delay discounting for monetary rewards in pre-adolescent children.

ABSTRACT: Children are found to exhibit high degrees of delay discounting compared with adults in many delay discounting studies, which might be due to the asynchronous development of "bottom-up" and "top-down" neural systems. However, the temporal dynamics associated with the two systems in the development of delay discounting processes are not well known. In this study, we chose two age groups of participants and adopted event-related potential (ERP) techniques to investigate the neural dynamic differences between children and adults during delay discounting processes. Behavioral findings showed that children discounted more than adults and chose more immediate choices. Electrophysiological findings revealed that children exhibited longer neural processing (longer P2 latency) than adults during th

SUBMITTER: Yu M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8052366 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature