Attentional capture by emotional faces in adolescence

Relatively little is known about how emotional stimuli affect attentional processing during adolescence. Neuroimaging data suggest that the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is central to the integration of these processes and the ACC is still maturing in teenagers. A face flanker task that required identification of the emotional expression of a central face when flanked by either congruent or incongruent facial expressions was administered to...