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Author
A.C.K. van Duijvenvoorde
K. Zanolie
S.A.R.B. Rombouts
M.E.J. Raijmakers
E.A. Crone
Year
2008
Title
Evaluating the negative or valuing the positive? Neural mechanisms supporting feedback-based learning across development
Journal
The Journal of Neuroscience
Volume | Issue number
28 | 38
Pages (from-to)
9495-9503
Number of pages
9
Document type
Article
Faculty
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences (FMG)
Institute
Psychology Research Institute (PsyRes)
Abstract
Howchildren learn from positive and negative performance feedback lies at the foundation of successful learning and is therefore of great importance for educational practice. In this study, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine the neural
developmental changes related to feedback-based learning when performing a rule search and application task. Behavioral results from three age groups (8 -9, 11-13, and 18 -25 years of age) demonstrated that, compared with adults, 8- to 9-year-old children performed
disproportionally more inaccurately after receiving negative feedback relative to positive feedback. Additionally, imaging data pointed toward a qualitative difference in how children and adults use performance feedback. That is, dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and superior
parietal cortex were more active after negative feedback for adults, but after positive feedback for children (8 -9 years of age). For 11- to 13-year-olds, these regions did not show differential feedback sensitivity, suggesting that the transition occurs around this age. Presupplementary motor area/anterior cingulate cortex, in contrast, was more active after negative feedback in both 11- to 13-year-olds and adults, but not 8- to 9-year-olds. Together, the current data show that cognitive control areas are differentially engaged during feedbackbased learning across development. Adults engage these regions after signals of response adjustment (i.e., negative feedback). Young children engage these regions after signals of response continuation (i.e., positive feedback). The neural activation patterns found in 11- to 13-year-olds indicate a transition around this age toward an increased influence of negative feedback on performance adjustment. This is the first developmental fMRI study to compare qualitative changes in brain activation during feedback learning across distinct stages of development.
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http://hdl.handle.net/11245/1.297090

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