Longitudinal change in neural response to vocal emotion in adolescence.

ABSTRACT: Adolescence is associated with maturation of function within neural networks supporting the processing of social information. Previous longitudinal studies have established developmental influences on youth's neural response to facial displays of emotion. Given the increasing recognition of the importance of non-facial cues to social communication, we build on existing work by examining longitudinal change in neural response to vocal expressions of emotion in 8- to 19-year-old youth. Participants completed a vocal emotion recognition task at two timepoints (1 year apart) while undergoing functional magnetic resonance imaging. The right inferior frontal gyrus, right dorsal striatum and right precentral gyrus showed decreases in activation to emotional voices across timepoints, which may ref

SUBMITTER: Morningstar M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9527472 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature