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The Neural Development of ‘Us and Them’

Overview of attention for article published in Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, September 2016
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Title
The Neural Development of ‘Us and Them’
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Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience, September 2016
DOI 10.1093/scan/nsw134
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João F. Guassi Moreira, Jay J. Van Bavel, Eva H. Telzer

Abstract

Social groups aid human beings in several ways, ranging from the fulfillment of complex social and personal needs to the promotion of survival. Despite the importance of group affiliation to humans, there remains considerable variation in group preferences across development. In the current study, children and adolescents completed an explicit evaluation task of in-group and out-group members during functional neuroimaging. We found that participants displayed age-related increases in bilateral amygdala, fusiform gryus, and orbitofrontal cortex activation when viewing in-group relative to out-group faces. Moreover, we found an indirect effect of age on in-group favoritism via brain activation in the amygdala, fusiform, and OFC. Finally, with age, youth showed greater functional coupling between the amygdala and several neural regions when viewing in-group relative to out-group peers, suggesting a role of the amygdala in directing attention to motivationally relevant cues. Our findings suggest that the motivational significance and processing of group membership undergoes important changes across development.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 88 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 21 24%
Student > Master 11 13%
Student > Bachelor 10 11%
Researcher 8 9%
Other 7 8%
Other 11 13%
Unknown 20 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 34 39%
Neuroscience 13 15%
Business, Management and Accounting 3 3%
Medicine and Dentistry 3 3%
Social Sciences 3 3%
Other 7 8%
Unknown 25 28%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 June 2020.
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#5,188,619
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#787
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#79,344
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Outputs of similar age from Social Cognitive & Affective Neuroscience
#24
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