Another international article about the VIVA Project has just been published! This time, he appeared in the magazine Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, by the editor of the University of Oxford. The article entitled “An fMRI study of inhibitory control and the effects of exposure to violence in Latin American adolescents: changes in frontoparietal activation and performance”, was conducted by InsCer researcher, Augusto Buchweitz.

The study shows an association between increased exposure to violence among adolescents and a faster drop in performance on a task that measures attention (more specifically, inhibitory control) and changes in the brain network associated with attention (executive functions). There was an association between more violence, worse performance and less activation in the frontal and posterior network associated with the known executive functions.