Neurocognitive development of novelty and error monitoring in children and adolescents

Kathleen Kang; Nina Alexander; Jan R. Wessel; Pauline Wimberger; Katharina Nitzsche; Clemens Kirschbaum; Shu-Chen Li

doi:10.1038/s41598-021-99043-z

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Neurocognitive development of novelty and error monitoring in children and adolescents

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Neurocognitive development of novelty and error monitoring in children and adolescents

Kathleen Kang, Nina Alexander, Jan R. Wessel, Pauline Wimberger, Katharina Nitzsche, Clemens Kirschbaum and Shu-Chen Li

Scientific reports, Vol.11(1), 19844

10/01/2021

DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-99043-z

PMCID: PMC8494897

PMID: 34615914

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Abstract The abilities to monitor one’s actions and novel information in the environment are crucial for behavioural and cognitive control. This study investigated the development of error and novelty monitoring and their electrophysiological correlates by using a combined flanker with novelty-oddball task in children (7–12 years) and adolescents (14–18 years). Potential moderating influences of prenatal perturbation of steroid hormones on these performance monitoring processes were explored by comparing individuals who were prenatally exposed and who were not prenatally exposed to synthetic glucocorticoids (sGC). Generally, adolescents performed more accurately and faster than children. However, behavioural adaptations to error or novelty, as reflected in post-error or post-novelty slowing, showed different developmental patterns. Whereas post-novelty slowing could be observed in children and adolescents, error-related slowing was absent in children and was marginally significant in adolescents. Furthermore, the amplitude of error-related negativity was larger in adolescents, whereas the amplitude of novelty-related N2 was larger in children. These age differences suggest that processes involving top-down processing of task-relevant information (for instance, error monitoring) mature later than processes implicating bottom-up processing of salient novel stimuli (for instance, novelty monitoring). Prenatal exposure to sGC did not directly affect performance monitoring but initial findings suggest that it might alter brain-behaviour relation, especially for novelty monitoring.

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Title: Subtitle: Neurocognitive development of novelty and error monitoring in children and adolescents
Creators: Kathleen Kang - Technische Universität Dresden
Nina Alexander - Phillips University
Jan R. Wessel - University of Iowa
Pauline Wimberger - Technische Universität Dresden
Katharina Nitzsche - Technische Universität Dresden
Clemens Kirschbaum - Technische Universität Dresden
Shu-Chen Li - Faculty of Psychology, Chair of Lifespan Developmental Neuroscience, Technische Universität Dresden
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Scientific reports, Vol.11(1), 19844
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-99043-z
PMID: 34615914
PMCID: PMC8494897
NLM abbreviation: Sci Rep
eISSN: 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
Grant note: DOI: 10.13039/501100001659, name: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, award: AL 1485/5-1, KI 537/36-1, LI 879/15-1; DOI: 10.13039/501100002957, name: Technische Universität Dresden
Language: English
Date published: 10/01/2021
Academic Unit: Roy J. Carver Department of Biomedical Engineering; Neurology; Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
Record Identifier: 9984185481702771

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