title: Development of Risk-Taking, Perspective-Taking, and Inhibitory Control During Adolescence.
abstract: Structural and functional brain development is thought to lead to different developmental progressions of cognitive control, risk/reward processing, and social cognition during adolescence. We compared these abilities in a cross-sectional sample of 90 adolescents aged 12, 15, or 17 years old, using computerized measures of inhibitory control (Go/No-Go task), risk-taking (Balloon Analogue Risk task), and social perspective-taking (Director task). Fifteen-year-olds exhibited better inhibitory control than 12-year-olds, while 17-year-olds exhibited greater perspective-taking than younger adolescents. Risk-taking was greater in older adolescents than 12-year-olds when controlling for inhibitory control. These findings are consistent with earlier findings obtained in separate samples.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck , University of London , London , United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Gillian
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Humphrey
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychological Sciences, Birkbeck , University of London , London , United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Iroise
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Dumontheil
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000367:Age Factors; D001931:Brain Mapping; D002540:Cerebral Cortex / Q000502:physiology*; D002648:Child; D003118:Color Perception / Q000502:physiology; D003430:Cross-Sectional Studies; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D009949:Orientation / Q000502:physiology; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D012201:Reward; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012919:Social Behavior; D012938:Social Perception; D056345:Theory of Mind