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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Developmental Psychology

Background:

  • Adolescence is a critical period for developing cognitive control, with many clinical conditions emerging.
  • Maladaptive behaviors in adolescence are linked to cognitive control deficits, particularly concerning reward processing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how reward associations modulate attentional capture in adolescents versus adults.
  • To determine if developmental differences in cognitive control impact value-based attention.

Main Methods:

  • Adults and adolescents learned stimulus-reward associations via a visual task.
  • An extinction task assessed attentional capture by previously rewarded stimuli presented as distractors.
  • Visual working memory capacity was assessed to rule out its influence.

Main Results:

  • Both age groups exhibited initial value-driven attentional capture.
  • Adolescents demonstrated a significantly longer persistence of this attentional capture effect compared to adults.
  • This difference was not attributable to variations in visual working memory.

Conclusions:

  • Adolescents exhibit prolonged value-driven attentional capture, indicating distinct attentional control mechanisms compared to adults.
  • These findings suggest that heightened value-based attentional capture in adolescence may underlie cognitive control failures.
  • This prolonged effect could be relevant to understanding vulnerabilities in adolescence, including attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder.