Reward‐specific learning parameters change across normative adolescent development and are blunted in youth with high risk for depression

The observed developmental changes in traditional and computational metrics are largely consistent with the optimization of learning from rewards across adolescence. Further, the observed developmental changes in specifically reward-related computational parameters are consistent with heightened adolescent reward system plasticity. Additionally, there was support for our hypothesis that maternal history of depression may exert a unique effect on learning from rewards specifically, but further research across additional reward learning tasks is needed.