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CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Volume 84, Issue 6, Pages 1954-1966Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12085
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- NICHD NIH HHS [T32 HD007151] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [T32 MH73129, T32 MH073129] Funding Source: Medline
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This study investigated the changing relation between emotion and inhibitory control during adolescence. One hundred participants between 11 and 25years of age performed a go-nogo task in which task-relevant stimuli (letters) were presented at the center of large task-irrelevant images depicting negative, positive, or neutral scenes selected from the International Affective Picture System. Longer reaction times for negative trials were found across all age groups, suggesting that negative but not positive emotional images captured attention across this age range. However, age differences in accuracy on inhibitory trials suggest that response inhibition is more readily disrupted by negative emotional distraction in early adolescence relative to late childhood, late adolescence, or early adulthood.
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