Brain Activity Elicited by Positive and Negative Feedback in Preschool-Aged Children

Xiaoqin Mai, Twila Tardif, Stacey N Doan, Chao Liu, William J Gehring and Yue-Jia Luo

PLOS ONE, 2011, vol. 6, issue 4, 1-6

Abstract: To investigate the processing of positive vs. negative feedback in children aged 4–5 years, we devised a prize-guessing game that is analogous to gambling tasks used to measure feedback-related brain responses in adult studies. Unlike adult studies, the feedback-related negativity (FRN) elicited by positive feedback was as large as that elicited by negative feedback, suggesting that the neural system underlying the FRN may not process feedback valence in early childhood. In addition, positive feedback, compared with negative feedback, evoked a larger P1 over the occipital scalp area and a larger positive slow wave (PSW) over the right central-parietal scalp area. We believe that the PSW is related to emotional arousal and the intensive focus on positive feedback that is present in the preschool and early school years has adaptive significance for both cognitive and emotional development during this period.

Date: 2011
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