than older groups due to a greater reliance on external feedback cues as opposed to internal representations of feedback emerging from learning.Santesso et al. (2011) suggest that because there may be a shift across development from reliance on external feedback to internal feedback, developmental FRN effects could be contaminated by differential learning effects. Thus, using a non-learning FRN task may be optimal for examining developmental differences in the FRN in the absence of learning effects. In the present study, we address this issue directly by using a non-learning reward based feedback task.
