ArticleDevelopmental cognitive neuroscience2020
Neural response to rewards predicts risk-taking in late but not early adolescent females.
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- Adaptations of the balloon analog risk task for neuroimaging settings: a systematic review.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Pooled it
- Prefrontal cortex development and its implications in mental illness.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Review
- Exploring Shared and Unique Predictors of Positive and Negative Risk-Taking Behaviors Among Chinese Adolescents Through Machine-Learning Approaches: Discovering Gender and Age Variations.Journal of youth and adolescence · 2025Article
- [Research advances in reward positivity and internalizing and externalizing problems in children and adolescents].Zhongguo dang dai er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of contemporary pediatrics · 2025Review
- Parsing patterns of reward responsiveness: Initial evidence from latent profile analysis.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
- Longitudinal association between interparental conflict and risk-taking behavior among Chinese adolescents: testing a moderated mediation model.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2023Article
- The personality and cognitive traits associated with adolescents' sensitivity to social norms.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
Risk-taking peaks in adolescence and reflects, in part, hyperactivity of the brain's reward system. However, it has not been established whether the association between reward-related brain activity and risk-taking varies across adolescence. The present study investigated how neural reward sensitivity is associated with laboratory risk-taking in a sample of female adolescents as a function of age. Sixty-three female adolescents ages 10-19 completed the Balloon Analogue Risk Task, a laboratory measure of risk-taking behavior, as well as a forced choice monetary gambling task while an electroencephalogram (EEG) was recorded. This gambling task elicits the reward positivity (RewP), a frontocentral event-related potential component that is sensitive to feedback signaling reward. We observed a negative quadratic association between age and risk-taking, such that those in early and late adolescence had lower relative risk-taking compared to mid-adolescence, with risk-taking peaking at around 15 years of age. In predicting risk-taking, we observed an interaction between age and RewP, such that reward-related brain activity was not associated with risk-taking in early adolescence but was associated with a greater propensity for risk in later adolescence. These findings suggest that for females, neural response to rewards is an important factor in predicting risk-taking only in later adolescence.
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