A developmental study of the feedback-related negativity from 10-17 years: age and sex effects for reward versus non-reward

Dev Neuropsychol. 2013;38(8):595-612. doi: 10.1080/87565641.2012.694512.

Abstract

We employed event-related potentials to examine the feedback-related negativity (FRN), during a non-learning reward versus non-reward task. We compared 10-12-year-old, 13-14-year-old, and 15-17-year-old youth (n = 91). Age effects included a larger FRN for younger age groups, regardless of feedback type, and a decrease in peak latency for feedback, across age groups as a linear trend. Males showed larger responses irrespective of feedback type and longer latency for rewarded feedback. Source modeling revealed reward/non-reward differences in the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) and orbitofrontal cortex, most strongly in the subgenual ACC. Males showed more subgenual ACC activity for feedback overall.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Age Factors
  • Cerebral Cortex / physiology*
  • Child
  • Connecticut
  • Electroencephalography
  • Evoked Potentials / physiology*
  • Feedback, Psychological / physiology*
  • Female
  • Gyrus Cinguli / physiology*
  • Humans
  • Learning / physiology*
  • Male
  • Reward*
  • Sex Factors