AUTHOR=Van Den Bos Wouter , Güroğlu Berna , Van Den Bulk Bianca G., Rombouts Serge A., Crone Eveline A. TITLE=Better than expected or as bad as you thought? The neurocognitive development of probabilistic feedback processing JOURNAL=Frontiers in Human Neuroscience VOLUME=3 YEAR=2009 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/human-neuroscience/articles/10.3389/neuro.09.052.2009 DOI=10.3389/neuro.09.052.2009 ISSN=1662-5161 ABSTRACT=
Learning from feedback lies at the foundation of adaptive behavior. Two prior neuroimaging studies have suggested that there are qualitative differences in how children and adults use feedback by demonstrating that dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and parietal cortex were more active after negative feedback for adults, but after positive feedback for children. In the current study we used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to test whether this difference is related to valence or informative value of the feedback by examining neural responses to negative and positive feedback while applying probabilistic rules. In total, 67 healthy volunteers between ages 8 and 22 participated in the study (8–11 years,