Dynamic adjustments of midfrontal control signals in adults and adolescents

Gyurkovics, Mate ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4483-3736 and Levita, Liat (2021) Dynamic adjustments of midfrontal control signals in adults and adolescents. Cerebral Cortex, 31 (2). pp. 795-808. ISSN 1047-3211

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Abstract

During task performance, our level of cognitive control is dynamically adjusted to task demands as reflected, for example, by the congruency sequence effect (CSE) in conflict tasks. Although brain areas related to cognitive control show protracted maturation across adolescence, previous studies found that adolescents show similar behavioral CSEs to adults. In the present study, we investigated whether there are age-related changes in the neural underpinnings of dynamic control adjustments using electroencephalography. Early adolescents (ages 12-14, N = 30) and young adults (ages 25-27, N = 29) completed a confound-minimized flanker task optimized for the detection of sequential control adjustments. The CSE was observed in midfrontal theta power thought to capture anterior cingulate cortex-mediated monitoring processes but was not modulated significantly by age. Adolescents, however, showed a smaller congruency effect in the power and cross-trial temporal consistency of midfrontal theta oscillations than adults. No age differences were observed in phase-based connectivity between midfrontal and lateral frontal regions in the theta band. These findings provide strong support for the role of midfrontal theta oscillations in conflict monitoring and reactive control and suggest that the cognitive system of early adolescents initially responds less reliably to the occurrence of conflict than that of adults.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	adolescence,cognitive control,cognitive development,midfrontal theta oscillations,cognitive neuroscience,cellular and molecular neuroscience,3* ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2800/2805
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Psychology
Related URLs:	http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?... https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/166124/
Depositing User:	LivePure Connector
Date Deposited:	13 Aug 2024 12:30
Last Modified:	21 Oct 2024 00:52
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/96225
DOI:	10.1093/cercor/bhaa258

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