Figure 3. Developmental differences in cerebellar reward processing.

(A) Adolescent reward anticipation recruits a diffuse set of regions with some reasonable overlap with (B) the reward anticipation activity observed in a recent adult meta-analysis (Kruithof et al., 2023). Conversely, (C) during reward receipt adults exhibited a highly focal pattern primarily within the cerebellar vermis (Kruithof et al., 2023), while (D) the current meta-analysis found evidence for more diffuse activation of the cerebellum during reward receipt in adolescents. Activation peaks are depicted on coronal slices in MNI space and also projected onto SUIT flatmaps in SUIT space.