Brain responds similarly to prediction errors for human and slot-machine partners' generosity¶
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q2 i? TPJ, PCC, PrCu, vmPFC, and other regions reflected prediction errors for generosity similarly for both human and slot machine partners, suggesting social versus nonsocial processing is not categorically distinct. → Jessica Joiner 2017
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Jessica Joiner 2017¶
Jessica Joiner, Matthew Piva, Courtney Turrin and Steve W. C. Chang. (2017). Social learning through prediction error in the brain. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-017-0009-2
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Review of a human neuroimaging game study comparing social and nonsocial interactive partners. The review cites it as evidence that social information processing "may not be categorically distinct from other types of information, but rather lie on a continuum".
"when human participants play a game with other individuals or slot machine partners programmed to display varying levels of generosity, activations in TPJ, PCC, PrCu, vmPFC, and several other regions reflected the prediction errors for generosity similarly for both human and slot machine partners."
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Related Claims¶
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- Prefrontal cortex separates other-referenced prediction errors by subtype: dlPFC for other's actions, vmPFC for other's outcomes — related
- Reward prediction errors are positively correlated with putamen, vmPFC, amygdala and posterior cingulate and anticorrelated with aIns, dmPFC and dlPFC — related
- Striatum computes other-referenced prediction errors in social and economic games, including without added payoff — a broader claim this one bears on
- Anterior cingulate gyrus specializes in other-referenced social valuation and prediction errors, dissociable from the sulcus — related
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Brain responds similarly to prediction errors for human and slot-machine partners' generosity |
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Brain responds similarly to prediction errors for human and slot-machine partners' generosity |
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