ArticleDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2015
Mid-adolescent neurocognitive development of ignoring and attending emotional stimuli.
Article in Developmental cognitive neuroscience, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
16 citing papers in PubMed.
- The regulation of emotions in adolescents: Age differences and emotion-specific patterns.PloS one · 2018Trial
- Cortical microarchitecture supports preadolescent functional brain network connectivity.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Frontal-limbic mediated implicit cognitive control of emotion in the transition to adolescence.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Article
- How do positive and negative emotions influence children's and adolescents' arithmetic performance?PloS one · 2025Article
- Coping strategies of school-going adolescents during the COVID-19 pandemic in the climate vulnerable Manafwa watershed, Uganda.BMC psychology · 2024Article
- Impact of analytic decisions on test-retest reliability of individual and group estimates in functional magnetic resonance imaging: A multiverse analysis using the monetary incentive delay task.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- A normative model of brain responses to social scenarios reflects the maturity of children and adolescents' social-emotional abilities.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2023Article
- The YOUth cohort study: MRI protocol and test-retest reliability in adults.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2020Article
- Emotional Interference in Early Adolescence: Positive Reinforcement Modulates the Behavioral and Neural Effects of Negative Emotional Distracters.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2020Article
- Article
- Test-retest reliability of longitudinal task-based fMRI: Implications for developmental studies.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2018Review
- Anterior insula hyperactivation in ADHD when faced with distracting negative stimuli.Human brain mapping · 2018Article
- Machiavellian emotion regulation in a cognitive reappraisal task: An fMRI study.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2017Article
- Reliability in adolescent fMRI within two years - a comparison of three tasks.Scientific reports · 2017Article
- Basic emotion processing and the adolescent brain: Task demands, analytic approaches, and trajectories of changes.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2016Review
- Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Appropriate reactions toward emotional stimuli depend on the distribution of prefrontal attentional resources. In mid-adolescence, prefrontal top-down control systems are less engaged, while subcortical bottom-up emotional systems are more engaged. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging to follow the neural development of attentional distribution, i.e. attending versus ignoring emotional stimuli, in adolescence. 144 healthy adolescents were studied longitudinally at age 14 and 16 while performing a perceptual discrimination task. Participants viewed two pairs of stimuli--one emotional, one abstract--and reported on one pair whether the items were the same or different, while ignoring the other pair. Hence, two experimental conditions were created: "attending emotion/ignoring abstract" and "ignoring emotion/attending abstract". Emotional valence varied between negative, positive, and neutral. Across conditions, reaction times and error rates decreased and activation in the anterior cingulate and inferior frontal gyrus increased from age 14 to 16. In contrast, subcortical regions showed no developmental effect. Activation of the anterior insula increased across ages for attending positive and ignoring negative emotions. Results suggest an ongoing development of prefrontal top-down resources elicited by emotional attention from age 14 to 16 while activity of subcortical regions representing bottom-up processing remains stable.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.