Understanding adolescence as a period of social–affective engagement and goal flexibility

EA Crone, RE Dahl - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2012 - nature.com
Research has demonstrated that extensive structural and functional brain development
continues throughout adolescence. A popular notion emerging from this work states that a …

Beyond simple models of self-control to circuit-based accounts of adolescent behavior

BJ Casey - Annual review of psychology, 2015 - annualreviews.org
Adolescence is the transition from childhood to adulthood that begins around the onset of
puberty and ends with relative independence from the parent. This developmental period is …

[HTML][HTML] The Ryerson Audio-Visual Database of Emotional Speech and Song (RAVDESS): A dynamic, multimodal set of facial and vocal expressions in North …

SR Livingstone, FA Russo - PloS one, 2018 - journals.plos.org
The RAVDESS is a validated multimodal database of emotional speech and song. The
database is gender balanced consisting of 24 professional actors, vocalizing lexically …

[HTML][HTML] Masking emotions: Face masks impair how we read emotions

M Gori, L Schiatti, MB Amadeo - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
To date, COVID-19 has spread across the world, changing our way of life and forcing us to
wear face masks. This report demonstrates that face masks influence the human ability to …

Early developmental emergence of human amygdala–prefrontal connectivity after maternal deprivation

DG Gee, LJ Gabard-Durnam… - Proceedings of the …, 2013 - National Acad Sciences
Under typical conditions, medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) connections with the amygdala
are immature during childhood and become adult-like during adolescence. Rodent models …

A developmental shift from positive to negative connectivity in human amygdala–prefrontal circuitry

DG Gee, KL Humphreys, J Flannery, B Goff… - Journal of …, 2013 - Soc Neuroscience
Recent human imaging and animal studies highlight the importance of frontoamygdala
circuitry in the regulation of emotional behavior and its disruption in anxiety-related …

Functional atlas of emotional faces processing: a voxel-based meta-analysis of 105 functional magnetic resonance imaging studies

P Fusar-Poli, A Placentino, F Carletti, P Landi… - Journal of psychiatry and …, 2009 - jpn.ca
Background: Most of our social interactions involve perception of emotional information from
the faces of other people. Furthermore, such emotional processes are thought to be aberrant …

The NimStim set of facial expressions: Judgments from untrained research participants

N Tottenham, JW Tanaka, AC Leon, T McCarry… - Psychiatry …, 2009 - Elsevier
A set of face stimuli called the NimStim Set of Facial Expressions is described. The goal in
creating this set was to provide facial expressions that untrained individuals, characteristic of …

The adolescent brain

BJ Casey, S Getz, A Galvan - Developmental review, 2008 - Elsevier
Adolescence is a developmental period characterized by suboptimal decisions and actions
that give rise to an increased incidence of unintentional injuries and violence, alcohol and …

A time of change: behavioral and neural correlates of adolescent sensitivity to appetitive and aversive environmental cues

LH Somerville, RM Jones, BJ Casey - Brain and cognition, 2010 - Elsevier
Adolescence is a developmental period that entails substantial changes in affective and
incentive-seeking behavior relative to both childhood and adulthood, including a heightened …