A developmental study of the feedback-related negativity from 10-17 years: age and sex effects for reward versus non-reward.
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.
a Yale Child Study Center , Yale School of Medicine , New Haven , Connecticut.
Michael J
MJ
Crowley
Jia
J
Wu
Rebecca E
RE
Hommer
Mikle
M
South
Peter J
PJ
Molfese
R M P
RM
Fearon
Linda C
LC
Mayes
D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D002648:Child; D003237:Connecticut; D004569:Electroencephalography; D005071:Evoked Potentials / Q000502:physiology*; D030141:Feedback, Psychological / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006179:Gyrus Cinguli / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning / Q000502:physiology*; D008297:Male; D012201:Reward; D012737:Sex Factors