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Trial-level ERPs predicted behavioral responses during self-referential processing in late childhood.

Pan Liu¹, Xiao Yang², Jaron X Y Tan³

¹Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2E9, Canada.

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Summary

This study reveals how brain activity, specifically the P2 and late positive potential (LPP) event-related potentials (ERPs), influences children's responses during a self-referent encoding task (SRET). Understanding these links enhances insights into self-referential processing and youth psychopathology.

Keywords:

EEG multilevel model pre-adolescence self-schematic processing trial-level analysis

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Area of Science:

Cognitive Neuroscience
Developmental Psychology
Child Psychiatry

Background:

Self-referential information is processed preferentially, even in children.
The self-referent encoding task (SRET) with event-related potentials (ERPs) is used to study self-referential processing and youth psychopathology.
The relationship between ERP and behavioral indices in SRET is not well understood.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the association between ERP and behavioral measures within the SRET in children.
To understand the mechanistic underpinnings of self-referential processing and its role in psychopathology.

Main Methods:

115 children aged 9-12 years participated.
A multilevel modeling approach was applied to trial-level SRET data.
Between- and within-person variability of ERPs (P2, LPP) and behavioral responses were analyzed.

Main Results:

Within-person, a larger P2 predicted faster responses on a given trial.
Within-person, a larger late positive potential (LPP) predicted a higher likelihood of endorsing words.
No significant between-person effects were observed.

Conclusions:

Novel evidence demonstrates how within-person ERP variability predicts overt SRET responses in children.
Findings enhance mechanistic understanding of self-referential processing.
These insights may improve understanding of self-referential processing in psychopathology development.