showing the robust effect of reward on eliciting striatal activity (e.g., Knutson et al., 2001; Montague and Berns, 2002). Developmental studies have shown that, indeed, children and adolescents recruit the same neural circuitry that adults do when presented with monetary and nonmonetary rewards (e.g., Bjork et al., 2004; Ernst et al., 2005; Galván et al., 2006; van Leijenhorst et al., 2009). However, how adolescents differ from adults in neural recruitment has been the subject of debate in the cognitive developmental neuroscience literature.
