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. 2018 Oct;132(Pt B):331-337.
doi: 10.1016/j.ijpsycho.2018.01.004. Epub 2018 Jan 10.

Developmental changes in the feedback related negativity from 8 to 14 years

Yael Arbel  1 , Kayleigh N McCarty  2 , Mark Goldman  3 , Emanuel Donchin  3 , Ty Brumback  4
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Developmental changes in the feedback related negativity from 8 to 14 years

Yael Arbel et al. Int J Psychophysiol. 2018 Oct.

Abstract

The study examined age related changes in the magnitude of the Feedback Related Negativity (FRN) in 8-14 year old children performing a variation of a Go/No-Go task. Participants were presented with four stimuli and tasked with mapping each of them either to a response or to a "no response" by trial and error guided by feedback. Feedback was valid for two stimuli (Go and No-Go) and invalid (.5 positive; .5 negative feedback) for the other two stimuli. The amplitude of the FRN was evaluated as a function of age separately for Go and No-Go trials. The results indicated that while performance on valid Go trials improved with age, accuracy on valid No-Go trials remained stable with age. FRN amplitude was found to be inversely related to age such that smaller FRN amplitudes were observed in older children even after controlling for variance in learning. Additionally, the FRN was found as a predictor of post-learning performance on Go trials but not on No-Go trials, regardless of age. These results do not provide support to the link between the FRN and inhibition control as measured by No-Go performance, but do suggest a link with other executive control abilities called for by the Go condition.

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Figure 1
Figure 1
Scatterplots of performance by condition. Number of correct Go trials (top row) and No-Go trials (bottom row) out of 100 trials per condition (left column) and percent of trials correct prior to learning the stimulus mapping (i.e., “pre-learning”; column 2) for all participants. Performance on post-learning trials (column 3) represent only the proportion of the sample that learned the stimulus mapping for each condition.
Figure 2
Figure 2
Virtual ERPs of Spatial Factor 1 for positive feedback (solid line) and negative feedback (dashed line) in Go trials (left) and NoGo trials (right). The separation of plots based on age is for visualization only and does not reflect our analysis.
Figure 3
Figure 3
Amplitude of FRN (measured as factor scores of SF1-TF2) elicited by positive (top row) and negative (bottom row) feedback in No-Go (left column) and Go (right column) trials before achieving a learning criterion.
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