KV RA Research Assistant

The first (incentive processing system) makes you more sensation seeking, more emotionally reactive, more attentive to social information. The second cognitive control system allows you to regulate all those things.

The incentive process systems reaches full power in early adolescence while the cognitive control system doesn't finish maturing until you're in your twenties.

Tough, Paul — How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character · Card #88
Quotes are taken from the research journals of Kyle Vanderburg.