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11 - Temperament and Brain Networks of Attention

from Part III - Development, Health and Change: Life Span and Health Outcomes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 September 2020

By
Mary K. Rothbart ,
Michael I. Posner  and
Brad E. Sheese
Edited by
Philip J. Corr  and
Gerald Matthews
Philip J. Corr
Affiliation:
City, University London
Gerald Matthews
Affiliation:
University of Central Florida
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Temperament is linked to the structure and function of the nervous system and to the experience of the organism. When we measure the person’s readiness to anger, to seek reward, to focus and switch attention, etc., we are measuring temperament and these in turn are linked to brain networks. Hyperreactivity to an unexpected, novel or intense stimulus, is also a measure of temperament important in understanding the development of behavior problems in children and psychopathologies of stress and attention in adults (Rothbart, 2011; Zentner & Shiner, 2012). Studies of resting state MRI have allowed tracing humans brain changes from birth (Gao et al., 2016), allowing examination of the development of attention and other networks early in life. The advance of epigenetic studies (Meaney, 2010) has offered a framework for thinking about the how the environment and gene expression work in concert to produce the pattern of connectivity unique to the individual.

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