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CHILD DEVELOPMENT
Volume 80, Issue 4, Pages 1016-1038Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL PUBLISHING, INC
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8624.2009.01314.x
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- NCRR NIH HHS [RR13642, RR00865, P41 RR013642, C06 RR012169, M01 RR000865] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [F31 MH075299, F31 MH075299-02, MH075299] Funding Source: Medline
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Classic theories of self-development suggest people define themselves in part through internalized perceptions of other people's beliefs about them, known as reflected self-appraisals. This study uses functional magnetic resonance imaging to compare the neural correlates of direct and reflected self-appraisals in adolescence (N = 12, ages 11-14 years) and adulthood (N = 12, ages 23-30 years). During direct self-reflection, adolescents demonstrated greater activity than adults in networks relevant to self-perception (medial prefrontal and parietal cortices) and social-cognition (dorsomedial prefrontal cortex, temporal-parietal junction, and posterior superior temporal sulcus), suggesting adolescent self-construals may rely more heavily on others' perspectives about the self. Activity in the medial fronto-parietal network was also enhanced when adolescents took the perspective of someone more relevant to a given domain.
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