Adolescent to young adult longitudinal development across 8 years for matching emotional stimuli during functional magnetic resonance imaging.

ABSTRACT: We investigated development from adolescence to young adulthood of neural bottom-up and top-down processes using a functional magnetic resonance imaging task on emotional attention. We followed 249 participants from age 14-22 in up to four waves resulting in 687 total scans of a matching task in which participants decided whether two pictures were the same including distracting emotional or neutral scenes. We applied generalized additive mixed models and a reliability approach for longitudinal analysis. Reaction times and error rates decreased longitudinally. For top-down processing, we found a longitudinal increase for the bilateral inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) for negative stimuli and in the left IFG also for positive and neutral stimuli. For bottom-up activation in the bilateral amygdal

SUBMITTER: Vetter NC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9352466 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature