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As they wait: Anticipatory neural response to evaluative peer feedback varies by pubertal status and social anxiety.


ABSTRACT: Adolescence is a developmental period characterized by substantial biological, neural, behavioral, and social changes. Learning to navigate the complex social world requires adaptive skills. Although anticipation of social situations can serve an adaptive function, providing opportunity to adjust behavior, socially anxious individuals may engage in maladaptive anticipatory processing. Importantly, elevated social anxiety often coincides with adolescence. This study investigated cortical electroencephalogram (EEG) responses during anticipation of evaluative feedback in 106 healthy adolescents aged 12-17 years. We examined differences in anticipatory event-related potentials (i.e., stimulus preceding negativity [SPN]) in relation to social anxiety levels and pubertal maturation. As expected, the right frontal SPN was more negative during feedback anticipation, particularly for adolescents with higher social anxiety and adolescents who were at a more advanced pubertal stage. Effects for the left posterior SPN were the opposite of those for the right frontal SPN consistent with a dipole. Anticipatory reactivity in adolescence was related to social anxiety symptom severity, especially in females, and pubertal maturation in a social evaluative situation. This study provides evidence for the development of social anticipatory processes in adolescence and potential mechanisms underlying maladaptive anticipation in social anxiety.

SUBMITTER: Topel S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8377527 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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As they wait: Anticipatory neural response to evaluative peer feedback varies by pubertal status and social anxiety.

Topel Selin S   van Noordt Stefon J R SJR   Willner Cynthia J CJ   Banz Barbara C BC   Wu Jia J   Castagna Peter P   Kortink Elise D ED   van der Molen Melle J W MJW   Crowley Michael J MJ  

Developmental cognitive neuroscience 20210812


Adolescence is a developmental period characterized by substantial biological, neural, behavioral, and social changes. Learning to navigate the complex social world requires adaptive skills. Although anticipation of social situations can serve an adaptive function, providing opportunity to adjust behavior, socially anxious individuals may engage in maladaptive anticipatory processing. Importantly, elevated social anxiety often coincides with adolescence. This study investigated cortical electroe  ...[more]

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