کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
6260957 1290545 2012 21 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
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ReviewFacing changes and changing faces in adolescence: A new model for investigating adolescent-specific interactions between pubertal, brain and behavioral development
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علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی علوم اعصاب رفتاری
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ReviewFacing changes and changing faces in adolescence: A new model for investigating adolescent-specific interactions between pubertal, brain and behavioral development
چکیده انگلیسی

Adolescence is a time of dramatic physical, cognitive, emotional, and social changes as well as a time for the development of many social-emotional problems. These characteristics raise compelling questions about accompanying neural changes that are unique to this period of development. Here, we propose that studying adolescent-specific changes in face processing and its underlying neural circuitry provides an ideal model for addressing these questions. We also use this model to formulate new hypotheses. Specifically, pubertal hormones are likely to increase motivation to master new peer-oriented developmental tasks, which will in turn, instigate the emergence of new social/affective components of face processing. We also predict that pubertal hormones have a fundamental impact on the re-organization of neural circuitry supporting face processing and propose, in particular, that, the functional connectivity, or temporal synchrony, between regions of the face-processing network will change with the emergence of these new components of face processing in adolescence. Finally, we show how this approach will help reveal why adolescence may be a period of vulnerability in brain development and suggest how it could lead to prevention and intervention strategies that facilitate more adaptive functional interactions between regions within the broader social information processing network.

Highlights* We review adolescent-specific neuromaturational changes in social-information processing. * The face processing system is a model domain in which to study these changes. * We describe new hypotheses about the functional consequences of social re-orientation toward peers. * This approach will reveal effects of gonadal hormones on behavior and brain function more generally. * This approach will help reveal why adolescence may be a period of vulnerability in brain development.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience - Volume 2, Issue 2, April 2012, Pages 199-219
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