Relationship between Puberty and Inhibitory Control: Computational Modeling of the Drift-diffusion Process. Issue 5 (4th July 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Castagna, Peter J.; Crowley, Michael J.
• Is Part Of: Developmental neuropsychology. Volume 46:Issue 5(2021)
• Page Start: 360
• Page End: 380
• Publication Date: 2021-07-04
• Subjects: Neuropsychology -- Periodicals; 612.8
• DOI: 10.1080/87565641.2021.1952206
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 8756-5641

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Previous work relies largely on the simple reaction time measures in inhibitory control tasks. The goal of the current study was to provide a better understanding the relationship between puberty, sex, and inhibitory control utilizing and contrasting two popular drift diffusion models. A sample of 103 adolescents ( M age = 14.49, SD = 1.69) self-reported their pubertal development and completed a flanker task. Utilizing Bayesian regressions, we found that the interaction between puberty and sex were significant predictors of the A/B parameter, conceptualized as the amount of information considered for a decision during the task.