ArticlePloS one2022
A brief child-friendly reward task reliably activates the ventral striatum in two samples of socioeconomically diverse youth.
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- How childhood adversity affects components of decision making.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2025Pooled it
- An Exploratory Study of an fMRI Reward-Learning Paradigm in Developing Adolescents.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Understanding the development of a functional brain circuit: reward processing as an illustration.Translational psychiatry · 2025Review
- Functional brain network organization and multidomain resilience to neighborhood disadvantage in youth.The American psychologist · 2024Article
- Exposure to community violence as a mechanism linking neighborhood socioeconomic disadvantage and neural responses to reward.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Article
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Abstract
Adolescence is a period of increased risk-taking behavior, thought to be driven, in part, by heightened reward sensitivity. One challenge of studying reward processing in the field of developmental neuroscience is finding a task that activates reward circuitry, and is short, not too complex, and engaging for youth of a wide variety of ages and socioeconomic backgrounds. In the present study, we tested a brief child-friendly reward task for activating reward circuitry in two independent samples of youth ages 7-19 years old enriched for poverty (study 1: n = 464; study 2: n = 27). The reward task robustly activated the ventral striatum, with activation decreasing from early to mid-adolescence and increasing from mid- to late adolescence in response to reward. This response did not vary by gender, pubertal development, or income-to-needs ratio, making the task applicable for a wide variety of populations. Additionally, ventral striatum activation to the task did not differ between youth who did and did not expect to receive a prize at the end of the task, indicating that an outcome of points alone may be enough to engage reward circuitry. Thus, this reward task is effective for studying reward processing in youth from different socioeconomic backgrounds.
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