Summit
2024 APS Global Psychological Science Summit · 2024
Early Life Unpredictability Predicts Deficits in Reward Learning in Young Children
- Connor Haughey
University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill - Nicolas Murgueitio
Unc chapel hill - Micaela Rodriguez
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Masita Wicaksana
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Yuetong Liu
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Sneha Boda
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Sneha Boda
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Margaret Sheridan
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Abstract
Preclinical models have shown how environmental unpredictability, including inconsistent caregiver interactions and environmental instability, affects reward learning. In a sample of 89 children, we show that increased entropy in caregiver signaling is associated with deficits in reward learning, suggesting unpredictability may be a early life risk factor for neurodevelopmental differences.
Childhood Adversity
