Picturing Teenage Feelings.
From Photographs of Facial Affect to fMRI Scans in the Construction of a Sexed Emotional Adolescent Brain.
Christel Gumy | 03.02.2015Using sets of photographs of facial affect to test the emotional reactions of adolescents via fMRI, neuroscience research has taken part in the construction of a neurobiological model of adolescence which postulates that the particular brain configuration of young people indicates a lack of emotional control. This model tends to prevail in the sciences of adolescence, particularly in connection with the issue of risk behavior. This paper investigates the process whereby cognitive neurosciences, using photographic portraits of actors miming [...]