“The Cooties Effect”: Amygdala Reactivity to Opposite- versus Same-sex Faces Declines from Childhood to Adolescence

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience - Tập 27 Số 9 - Trang 1685-1696 - 2015
Eva H. Telzer1, Jessica Flannery2, Kathryn L. Humphreys3, Bonnie Goff3, Laurel Gabard-Durman4, Dylan G. Gee3, Nim Tottenham4
11University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
22University of Oregon
33University of California, Los Angeles
44Columbia University

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Abstract One of the most important social identities that children learn to define themselves and others by is sex, becoming a salient social category by early childhood. Although older children begin to show greater flexibility in their gendered behaviors and attitudes, gender rigidity intensifies again around the time of puberty. In the current study, we assessed behavioral and neural biases to sex across a wide age group. Ninety-three youth (ages 7–17 years) provided behavioral rating of same- and opposite-sex attitudes, and 52 youth (ages 4–18 years) underwent an fMRI scan as they matched the emotion of same- and opposite-sex faces. We demonstrate significant age-related behavioral biases of sex that are mediated by differential amygdala response to opposite-sex relative to same-sex faces in children, an effect that completely attenuates by the teenage years. Moreover, we find a second peak in amygdala sensitivity to opposite-sex faces around the time of puberty. Thus, the amygdala codes for developmentally dependent and motivationally relevant social identification across development.

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