ArticleCognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience2018
Sex differences in the neural underpinnings of social and monetary incentive processing during adolescence.
Article in Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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
18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 42 citations in OpenAlex.
- Love is analogous to money in human brain: Coordinate-based and functional connectivity meta-analyses of social and monetary reward anticipation.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2019Pooled it
- Latent variables for region of interest activation during the monetary incentive delay task.NeuroImage · 2021Trial
- Neurophysiological characteristics of reward processing in deaf college students under different social contexts.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2025Article
- Sex differences in the rapid detection of neutral faces associated with emotional value.Biology of sex differences · 2023Article
- Expecting the unexpected: a review of learning under uncertainty across development.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2023Review
- Splitting the reward: Differences in inflammatory marker associations with neural connectivity between reward anticipation and reward outcome in adolescents at high risk for depression.Journal of affective disorders · 2023Article
- Explore with Me: Peer Observation Decreases Risk-Taking but Increases Exploration Tendencies across Adolescence.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2022Article
- Possible Event-Related Potential Correlates of Voluntary Attention and Reflexive Attention in the Emei Music Frog.Biology · 2022Article
- Developmental differences in processing the valence and magnitude of incentive cues: Mid-adolescents are more sensitive to potential gains than early- or late-adolescents.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Social and Nonsocial Reward Anticipation in Typical Development and Autism Spectrum Disorders: Current Status and Future Directions.Current psychiatry reports · 2021Review
- Sex differences in neural responses to reward and the influences of individual reward and punishment sensitivity.BMC neuroscience · 2021Article
- Ventral Striatal Activation During Reward Anticipation of Different Reward Probabilities in Adolescents and Adults.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Altered Neural Processing of Reward and Punishment in Women With Methamphetamine Use Disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Article
- Social Incentives Anticipation and Consummation: Investigating Neural Activity in Women Using Methamphetamine.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Neural Responses to Reward in a Gambling Task: Sex Differences and Individual Variation in Reward-Driven Impulsivity.Cerebral cortex communications · 2020Article
- Reward processing in certain versus uncertain contexts in schizophrenia: An event-related potential (ERP) study.Journal of abnormal psychology · 2019Article
- I Knew You Weren't Going to Like Me! Neural Response to Accurately Predicting Rejection Is Associated With Anxiety and Depression.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2019Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
The brain's reward system undergoes major changes during adolescence, and an increased reactivity to social and nonsocial incentives has been described as a typical feature during this transitional period. Little is known whether there are sex differences in the brain's responsiveness to social or monetary incentives during adolescence. The aim of this event-related potential (ERP) study was to compare the neurophysiological underpinnings of monetary and social incentive processing in adolescent boys versus girls. During ERP recording, 38 adolescents (21 females, 17 males; 13-18 years) completed an incentive delay task comprising (a) a reward versus punishment condition and (b) social versus monetary incentives. The stimulus-preceding negativity (SPN) was recorded during anticipation of reward and punishment, and the feedback P3 (fP3) along with the feedback-related negativity (FRN) after reward/punishment delivery. During anticipation of social punishment, adolescent boys compared with girls exhibited a reduced SPN. After delivery, male adolescents exhibited higher fP3 amplitudes to monetary compared with social incentives, whereas fP3 amplitudes in girls were comparable across incentive types. Moreover, whereas in boys fP3 responses were higher in rewards than in punishment trials, no such difference was evident in girls. The results indicate that adolescent boys show a reduced neural responsivity in the prospect of social punishment. Moreover, the findings imply that, once the incentive is obtained, adolescent boys attribute a relatively enhanced motivational significance to monetary incentives and show a relative hyposensitivity to punishment. The findings might contribute to our understanding of sex-specific vulnerabilities to problem behaviors related to incentive processing during adolescence.
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.