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Social exclusion affects working memory performance in young adolescent girls.
Fuhrmann, Delia; Casey, Caroline S; Speekenbrink, Maarten; Blakemore, Sarah-Jayne.
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  • Fuhrmann D; Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, WC1N 3AR, London, UK; MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, University of Cambridge, CB2 7EF, Cambridge, UK. Electronic address: delia.fuhrmann@mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk.
  • Casey CS; Institute of Neurology, University College London, WC1N 3BG, London, UK.
  • Speekenbrink M; Department of Experimental Psychology, University College London, WC1H 0AP, London, UK.
  • Blakemore SJ; Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, WC1N 3AR, London, UK.
Dev Cogn Neurosci ; 40: 100718, 2019 12.
Article em En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31733525
ABSTRACT
Adolescence has been proposed to be a sensitive period of social development, during which the social environment has a heightened effect on brain and behaviour. As such, negative social experiences, such as social exclusion, may have particularly detrimental effects on psychological well-being. However, little is known about how social exclusion affects cognitive performance during this time of life. Here, we compared the effects of exclusion between adolescence and adulthood. We recruited 98 females in three age groups young adolescents (N = 36, aged 10.1-14.0), mid-adolescents (N = 35, aged 14.3-17.9) and adults (N = 27, aged 18.3-38.1). All age groups showed reductions in mood after exclusion, compared to inclusion, in a virtual ball-tossing game. Young adolescents also showed reduced verbal working memory accuracy following exclusion. There was no effect of exclusion on visuo-spatial working memory in any age group. These results suggest young adolescent girls' verbal working memory accuracy was affected by a short, virtual social exclusion experience. This highlights the importance of the social environment in adolescence and underlines the need to consider age differences in response to exclusion in the design and timing of social exclusion interventions in schools.
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Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Distância Psicológica / Memória de Curto Prazo Limite: Adolescent / Adult / Child / Female / Humans Idioma: En Revista: Dev Cogn Neurosci Ano de publicação: 2019 Tipo de documento: Article

Texto completo: 1 Coleções: 01-internacional Base de dados: MEDLINE Assunto principal: Distância Psicológica / Memória de Curto Prazo Limite: Adolescent / Adult / Child / Female / Humans Idioma: En Revista: Dev Cogn Neurosci Ano de publicação: 2019 Tipo de documento: Article