Learning from other people's experience: A neuroimaging study of decisional interactive-learning

Canessa, Nicola; Motterlini, Matteo; Alemanno, Federica; Perani, Daniela; Cappa, Stefano F.

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.11.065

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“…The disappointment of making a bad gamble activates the PAG (Canessa et al, 2009; Coricelli et al, 2005), and activity in the PAG tracks gambling outcomes associated with reducing risk seeking (Canessa et al, 2011). Social rejection (i.e.…”

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Neuroimaging of the periaqueductal gray: State of the field

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This review and meta-analysis aims at summarizing and integrating the human neuroimaging studies that report periaqueductal gray (PAG) involvement; 250 original manuscripts on human neuroimaging of the PAG were identified. A narrative review and meta-analysis using activation likelihood estimates is included. Behaviors covered include pain and pain modulation, anxiety, bladder and bowel function and autonomic regulation. Methods include structural and functional magnetic resonance imaging, functional connectivity measures, diffusion weighted imaging and positron emission tomography. Human neuroimaging studies in healthy and clinical populations largely confirm the animal literature indicating that the PAG is involved in homeostatic regulation of salient functions such as pain, anxiety and autonomic function. Methodological concerns in the current literature, including resolution constraints, imaging artifacts and imprecise neuroanatomical labeling are discussed, and future directions are proposed. A general conclusion is that PAG neuroimaging is a field with enormous potential to translate animal data onto human behaviors, but with some growing pains that can and need to be addressed in order to add to our understanding of the neurobiology of this key region.

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“…However, not all authors could supply their whole-brain coordinates (Albrecht, Volz, Sutter, Laibson, & Von Cramon, 2010; Albrecht, Volz, Sutter, & von Cramon, 2013; Canessa, Motterlini, Alemanno, Perani, & Cappa, 2011; Canessa et al, 2009; Cooper, Dunne, Furey, & O’Doherty, 2012; Harbaugh et al, 2007; Kawamichi et al, 2013; Mitchell, Schirmer, Ames, & Gilbert, 2011; Mobbs et al, 2009; Moll et al, 2006; Suzuki et al, 2012). For all included publications, we selected the most relevant contrast from the study.…”

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Common and distinct neural correlates of personal and vicarious reward: A quantitative meta-analysis

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Individuals experience reward not only when directly receiving positive outcomes (e.g., food or money), but also when observing others receive such outcomes. This latter phenomenon, known as vicarious reward, is a perennial topic of interest among psychologists and economists. More recently, neuroscientists have begun exploring the neuroanatomy underlying vicarious reward. Here we present a quantitative whole-brain meta-analysis of this emerging literature. We identified 25 functional neuroimaging studies that included contrasts between vicarious reward and a neutral control, and subjected these contrasts to an activation likelihood estimate (ALE) meta-analysis. This analysis revealed a consistent pattern of activation across studies, spanning structures typically associated with the computation of value (especially ventromedial prefrontal cortex) and mentalizing (including dorsomedial prefrontal cortex and superior temporal sulcus). We further quantitatively compared this activation pattern to activation foci from a previous meta-analysis of personal reward. Conjunction analyses yielded overlapping VMPFC activity in response to personal and vicarious reward. Contrast analyses identified preferential engagement of the nucleus accumbens in response to personal as compared to vicarious reward, and in mentalizing-related structures in response to vicarious as compared to personal reward. These data shed light on the common and unique components of the reward that individuals experience directly and through their social connections.

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“…This is the main finding of a series of studies which have reported the involvement of (a subset of) the same brain regions when directly experiencing, and when attending in someone else, specific affective or sensory stimulations. Such a mechanism has been described for the direct and vicarious experience of pain (anterior insula and anterior cingulate cortex, i.e., the affective sector of the so-called pain matrix [ 116 , 117 ]), disgust (anterior insula [ 118 ]), tactile sensations (secondary somatosensory cortex SII [ 119 ]), and even regret for the outcomes of choices (orbitofrontal cortex and anterior cingulate cortex [ 120 , 121 ]). In keeping with the notion of “mirroring,” these results suggest that the observation, or even the mere awareness [ 116 , 117 ], of another person in a particular emotional state may automatically activate the neural representation of the same state in the observer.…”

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Social Cognition through the Lens of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience

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2018

BioMed Research International

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Social cognition refers to a set of processes, ranging from perception to decision-making, underlying the ability to decode others' intentions and behaviors to plan actions fitting with social and moral, besides individual and economic considerations. Its centrality in everyday life reflects the neural complexity of social processing and the ubiquity of social cognitive deficits in different pathological conditions. Social cognitive processes can be clustered in three domains associated with (a) perceptual processing of social information such as faces and emotional expressions (social perception), (b) grasping others' cognitive or affective states (social understanding), and (c) planning behaviors taking into consideration others', in addition to one's own, goals (social decision-making). We review these domains from the lens of cognitive neuroscience, i.e., in terms of the brain areas mediating the role of such processes in the ability to make sense of others' behavior and plan socially appropriate actions. The increasing evidence on the “social brain” obtained from healthy young individuals nowadays constitutes the baseline for detecting changes in social cognitive skills associated with physiological aging or pathological conditions. In the latter case, impairments in one or more of the abovementioned domains represent a prominent concern, or even a core facet, of neurological (e.g., acquired brain injury or neurodegenerative diseases), psychiatric (e.g., schizophrenia), and developmental (e.g., autism) disorders. To pave the way for the other papers of this issue, addressing the social cognitive deficits associated with severe acquired brain injury, we will briefly discuss the available evidence on the status of social cognition in normal aging and its breakdown in neurodegenerative disorders. Although the assessment and treatment of such impairments is a relatively novel sector in neurorehabilitation, the evidence summarized here strongly suggests that the development of remediation procedures for social cognitive skills will represent a future field of translational research in clinical neuroscience.

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Learning from other people's experience: A neuroimaging study of decisional interactive-learning

Cited by 27 publications

References 42 publications

Neuroimaging of the periaqueductal gray: State of the field

Neuroimaging of the periaqueductal gray: State of the field

Common and distinct neural correlates of personal and vicarious reward: A quantitative meta-analysis

Social Cognition through the Lens of Cognitive and Clinical Neuroscience

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