Teenage brain: sensitivity to social evaluation

Social cognition

Brain areas

Studying the building blocks

Emotion recognition

Adolescence

Looking at picture and saying if person likes you or not

Pupil dilation

Game on which you get the ball 30 per cent of times, and then none

What if you witness it

Don't know exactly when the change from childhood to adulthood starts

Hormones influence other, cycle

The period starts earlier but adolescence finishes later

Probably because of food and education styles (causing it to start before or after)

Grey matter, the ones that have been developed first are the ones who 'atrocian' first

Amygdala gets easily activated, so emotions strongly enter behaviour, causing problems in society

Differences in adolescents

Social relations: Sexual relations, fear of rejection and more intimacy with friends than family

Activity in prefrontal cortex decreases with age, but as it is brain image, correlational study, not causal

Largest pupil dilation after rejection

Peers pressure is mainly positive, but sometimes negative (alcohol...)

Ability to interact with each other

Psychopathy, socially cognitive capable, but no empathy, no emotions and antisocial

They all work together, not limited to a specific action per region, ex: Rizzolatti's mirror neurons

Mentalising network; thinking about what others might think (theory of mind)

Reductionism; clearing other possibilities that might not happen in real life

Ex: guy getting kicked on the balls

Amygdala

Mirror neurons

Mentalising

Just if asked to

Yes

Yes

Ex: kid being bulied

Mentalising

Amygdala

Mirror neurons

Just if you lived a close experience

Yes

Yes