Development of Functional Network Architecture Explains Changes in Children's Altruistically Motivated Helping

Autor/inn/en	Hoffmann, Ferdinand; Grosse Wiesmann, Charlotte; Singer, Tania; Steinbeis, Nikolaus
Titel	Development of Functional Network Architecture Explains Changes in Children's Altruistically Motivated Helping
Quelle	In: Developmental Science, 25 (2022) 2, (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1467-7687
DOI	10.1111/desc.13167
Schlagwörter	Altruism; Children; Preadolescents; Helping Relationship; Prosocial Behavior; Affective Behavior; Cognitive Processes; Emotional Response; Attention; Brain Hemisphere Functions; Neurological Organization; Age Differences; Motivation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Altruistic behavior; Altruismus; Child; Kind; Kinder; Pre-adolescence; Präadoleszenz; Helfende Beziehung; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Emotionales Verhalten; Aufmerksamkeit; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; psychologische; Motivation (psychologisch)
Abstract	Childhood is marked by profound changes in prosocial behaviour. The underlying motivational mechanisms remain poorly understood. We investigated the development of altruistically motivated helping in middle childhood and the neurocognitive and -affective mechanisms driving this development. One-hundred and twenty seven 6-12 year-old children performed a novel gustatory costly helping task designed to measure altruistic motivations of helping behaviour. Neurocognitive and -affective mechanisms including emotion regulation, emotional clarity and attentional reorienting were assessed experimentally through an extensive task-battery while functional brain activity and connectivity were measured during an empathy for taste paradigm and during rest. Altruistically motivated helping increased with age. Out of all mechanisms probed for, only emotional clarity increased with age and accounted for altruistically motivated helping. This was associated with greater functional integration of the empathy-related network with fronto-parietal brain regions at rest. We isolate a highly specific neuroaffective mechanism as the crucial driver of altruistically motivated helping during child development. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01