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Children show distinct neural patterns for emotions compared to adults, particularly in brain regions like the amygdala. This suggests developing affective representations mature from basic responses to complex evaluations.

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  • Developmental Psychology
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Background:

  • Cognitive and behavioral maturation in children involves changes in prefrontal and subcortical brain structures.
  • While structural differences are known, developmental changes in the neural representation of emotions remain underexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate developmental differences in how children and adults neurally represent emotions.
  • To explore how affective representations vary across key brain regions implicated in affective cognition.

Main Methods:

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to scan 45 participants (25 children, 20 adults).
  • Participants passively viewed positive, negative, and neutral film clips.
  • Representational Similarity Analysis (RSA) measured neural pattern similarity variability.

Main Results:

  • Significant developmental differences in neural pattern similarity were found in the amygdala, nucleus accumbens (NAcc), and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC).
  • Children exhibited less pattern similarity within subcortical regions compared to the vmPFC, unlike adults.
  • Children showed valence-specific representational patterns, which were absent in adults.

Conclusions:

  • Affective representations appear to become less similar during development.
  • This maturation may reflect a shift from visceral emotional responses to more complex, evaluative analyses.