Adolescent decision making

Описание: Why do adolescents disproportionately engage in risky behavior? In this narrated video, developmental cognitive neuroscientist Leah Somerville explores the hypothesis that part of the answer may be different maturational rates of “a strongly signaling striatum” versus “an intermediate level of prefrontal regulatory function.” Her focus, the regulation of motivated behavior and approach behavior via cognitive control, explicitly links themes that many textbooks will categorize as ‘cognitive control,’ ‘decision making,’ ‘social cognition,’ and ‘emotion/affective neuroscience.'

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Relevant papers:
Somerville, L. H., Jones, R. M., & Casey, B. J. (2010). A time of change: behavioral and neural correlates of adolescent sensitivity to appetitive and aversive environmental cues. Brain and cognition, 72(1), 124-133.

Somerville, L. H., & Casey, B. J. (2010). Developmental neurobiology of cognitive control and motivational systems. Current opinion in neurobiology, 20(2), 236-241.

Somerville, L. H., Jones, R. M., Ruberry, E. J., Dyke, J. P., Glover, G., & Casey, B. J. (2013). The medial prefrontal cortex and the emergence of self-conscious emotion in adolescence. Psychological science, 24(8), 1554-1562.