Journal
DEVELOPMENTAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 8, Issue -, Pages 40-54Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.dcn.2014.01.003
Keywords
Self; Social cognition; Adolescence; Puberty; Medial prefrontal cortex; Ventral striatum
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Funding
- National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship [2011122786]
- National Institutes of Health [L40HD059442, L40MH087356]
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The current fMRI study investigates the neural foundations of evaluating oneself and others during early adolescence and young adulthood. Eighteen early adolescents (ages 11-14, M = 12.6) and 19 young adults (ages 22-31, M = 25.6) evaluated whether academic, physical, and social traits described themselves directly (direct self-evaluations), described their best friend directly (direct other-evaluations), described themselves from their best friend's perspective (reflected self-evaluations),or in general could change over time (control malleability-evaluations). Compared to control evaluations, both adolescents and adults recruited cortical midline structures during direct and reflected self-evaluations, as well as during direct other-evaluations, converging with previous research. However, unique to this study was a significant three-way interaction between age group, evaluative perspective, and domain within bilateral ventral striatum. Region of interest analyses demonstrated a significant evaluative perspective by domain interaction within the adolescent sample only. Adolescents recruited greatest bilateral ventral striatum during reflected social self evaluations, which was positively correlated with age and pubertal development. These findings suggest that reflected social self-evaluations, made from the inferred perspective of a close peer, may be especially self-relevant, salient, or rewarding to adolescent self processing - particularly during the progression through adolescence - and this feature persists into adulthood. (C) 2014 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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