Fig. 1.

Several recent studies have shown that activity in DMPFC (pale yellow area) during social processing decreases between adolescence and adulthood. The purple dot shows a region activated more during social than basic emotion processing in adolescents than in adults (Burnett et al., 2009); green: activity greater during sarcasm comprehension in adolescents (Wang, Lee, Sigman, & Dapretto, 2006); blue: activity greater during mental state self-insight in adolescents (Blakemore et al. 2007); yellow: activity greater during self-other evaluation (Pfeifer et al., 2007); red: increase in activation with age during adolescence while watching social cartoons (Moriguchi et al., 2007).