title: Are You Smarter Than a Teenager? Maybe Not When It Comes to Reinforcement Learning.
abstract: Adolescence is a time of tumultuous behavior that may result, in part, from brain circuitry that enhances reward seeking. In this issue of Neuron, Davidow et al. (2016) present a convincing argument that adolescent brain functionality can be adaptive in certain contexts, particularly probabilistic learning environments.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Rutgers University-Newark, 101 Warren Street, Newark, NJ 07102, USA.
authors.forename: Brynne C
authors.initials: BC
authors.lastname: DiMenichi
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Rutgers University-Newark, 101 Warren Street, Newark, NJ 07102, USA. Electronic address: etricomi@rutgers.edu.
authors.forename: Elizabeth
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Tricomi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001921:Brain; D004777:Environment; D006801:Humans; D007858:Learning; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology; D012201:Reward