Are You Smarter Than a Teenager? Maybe Not When It Comes to Reinforcement Learning

Brynne C DiMenichi; Elizabeth Tricomi

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2016.09.043

Are You Smarter Than a Teenager? Maybe Not When It Comes to Reinforcement Learning

Neuron. 2016 Oct 5;92(1):1-3. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.09.043.

Authors

Brynne C DiMenichi¹, Elizabeth Tricomi²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Psychology, Rutgers University-Newark, 101 Warren Street, Newark, NJ 07102, USA.
² Department of Psychology, Rutgers University-Newark, 101 Warren Street, Newark, NJ 07102, USA. Electronic address: etricomi@rutgers.edu.

PMID: 27710782
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2016.09.043

Abstract

Adolescence is a time of tumultuous behavior that may result, in part, from brain circuitry that enhances reward seeking. In this issue of Neuron, Davidow et al. (2016) present a convincing argument that adolescent brain functionality can be adaptive in certain contexts, particularly probabilistic learning environments.

MeSH terms

Adolescent
Brain
Environment
Humans
Learning*
Reinforcement, Psychology*
Reward