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Age-related changes in attentional control across adolescence: how does this impact emotion regulation capacities?

This study set out to establish the novel use of the go/no-go Overlap task for investigating the role of attentional control capacities in the processing of emotional expressions across different age-groups within adolescence: at the onset of adolescence (11–12 year-olds) and toward the end of adole...

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Autores principales: Cohen Kadosh, Kathrin, Heathcote, Lauren C., Lau, Jennifer Y. F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3921606/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24575077
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00111
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description This study set out to establish the novel use of the go/no-go Overlap task for investigating the role of attentional control capacities in the processing of emotional expressions across different age-groups within adolescence: at the onset of adolescence (11–12 year-olds) and toward the end of adolescence (17–18 year-olds). We also looked at how attentional control in the processing of fearful, happy, and neutral expressions relates to individual differences in trait anxiety in these adolescent groups. We were able to show that younger adolescents, but not older adolescents had more difficulties with attention control in the presence of all faces, but particularly in the presence of fearful faces. Moreover, we found that across all groups, adolescents with higher trait anxiety exhibited attentional avoidance of all faces, which facilitated relatively better performance on the primary task. These differences in reaction time emerged in the context of comparable accuracy level in the primary task across age-groups. Our results contribute to our understanding of how attentional control abilities to faces but in particular fearful expressions may mature across adolescence. This may affect learning about the environment and the acquisition of behavioral response patterns in the social world.
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spelling pubmed-39216062014-02-26 Age-related changes in attentional control across adolescence: how does this impact emotion regulation capacities? Cohen Kadosh, Kathrin Heathcote, Lauren C. Lau, Jennifer Y. F. Front Psychol Psychology This study set out to establish the novel use of the go/no-go Overlap task for investigating the role of attentional control capacities in the processing of emotional expressions across different age-groups within adolescence: at the onset of adolescence (11–12 year-olds) and toward the end of adolescence (17–18 year-olds). We also looked at how attentional control in the processing of fearful, happy, and neutral expressions relates to individual differences in trait anxiety in these adolescent groups. We were able to show that younger adolescents, but not older adolescents had more difficulties with attention control in the presence of all faces, but particularly in the presence of fearful faces. Moreover, we found that across all groups, adolescents with higher trait anxiety exhibited attentional avoidance of all faces, which facilitated relatively better performance on the primary task. These differences in reaction time emerged in the context of comparable accuracy level in the primary task across age-groups. Our results contribute to our understanding of how attentional control abilities to faces but in particular fearful expressions may mature across adolescence. This may affect learning about the environment and the acquisition of behavioral response patterns in the social world. Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-02-12 /pmc/articles/PMC3921606/ /pubmed/24575077 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00111 Text en Copyright © 2014 Cohen Kadosh, Heathcote and Lau. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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title Age-related changes in attentional control across adolescence: how does this impact emotion regulation capacities?
title_full Age-related changes in attentional control across adolescence: how does this impact emotion regulation capacities?
title_fullStr Age-related changes in attentional control across adolescence: how does this impact emotion regulation capacities?
title_full_unstemmed Age-related changes in attentional control across adolescence: how does this impact emotion regulation capacities?
title_short Age-related changes in attentional control across adolescence: how does this impact emotion regulation capacities?
title_sort age-related changes in attentional control across adolescence: how does this impact emotion regulation capacities?
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3921606/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24575077
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00111
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