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"Hot" Executive Functions
- Neuroimaging research suggests that adolescents show greater activity than adults in the nucleus accumbens, a brain area related to difficulty in inhibition and responses to delayed rewards. However, more researches using fine scientific strategies such as the C-DT behavioral paradigm should be conducted with emerging adults as participants to figure out the relationship between this area and ADHD among college students.
- Questionnaire-based investigations have suggested that the development of long-term reward motivation and the ability to plan and anticipate for future events may continue throughout emerging adulthood.
- Further behavioral and neuroimaging research using active reward contingencies is needed in order to better understand the maturation of delay aversion throughout emerging adulthood.
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Updated 2022-02-25
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