Social Decision-Making and the Brain: A Comparative Perspective

Tremblay, Sébastien; Sharika, K. M.; Platt, Michael L.

doi:10.1016/j.tics.2017.01.007

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“…Kay Tye presented captivating circuit results about observational learning in mice, focusing on the different output pathways of the anterior cingulate cortex (Allsop et al 2018). These results resonated with previous human fMRI studies implicating anterior cingulate in action monitoring and social learning (Tremblay et al 2017), including studies presented by Michael Platt on rhesus macaque social interactions (Jiang and Platt 2018).…”

Section: Cross-species Convergencesupporting

confidence: 59%

Summary: Order and Disorder in Brains and Behavior

Kepecs

2018

Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol

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System explored the tremendous recent progress in neuroscience and how these advances may be used to improve brain health and address psychiatric and neurological disorders. The Symposium explored a vast array of topics from cell types to cognition. My summary focuses on a few emerging themes. Innovative techniques were ever-present, opening up new experimental possibilities. The commoditization of many state-of-the-art technologies is pushing neuroscience beyond its artisanal ways. Another important theme was "circuits in the middle": Numerous presentations dissected cell type-specific circuits that connect different levels of analysis from molecules to behavior. These new technologies have enabled curiosity-driven investigations in animals to connect more directly with preclinical and clinical studies of human brain disorders. Numerous emerging approaches were presented in human neuroscience, bolstering the hope that circuit-specific manipulations will soon provide improved treatments for brain disorders.The seat of the soul and the control of voluntary movement-in fact, of nervous functions in general-are to be sought in the heart. The brain is an organ of minor importance… .-Aristotle, De motu animalium

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Section: Cross-species Convergencesupporting

confidence: 59%

Summary: Order and Disorder in Brains and Behavior

Kepecs

2018

Cold Spring Harb Symp Quant Biol

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“…Another application of transparent games is related to the burgeoning experimental research of social interactions, including the emergent field of social neuroscience that seeks to uncover the neural basis of social signalling and decision-making using neuroimaging and electrophysiology in humans and animals [43][44][45][46]. So far, most studies have focused on sequential [47,48] or simultaneous games [49].…”

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confidence: 99%

Emergence and suppression of cooperation by action visibility in transparent games

Unakafov

Schultze

Kagan

et al. 2018

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Real-world agents, such as humans, animals and robots, observe each other during interactions and choose their own actions taking the partners' ongoing behaviour into account. Yet, classical game theory assumes that players act either strictly sequentially or strictly simultaneously (without knowing the choices of each other). To account for action visibility and provide a more realistic model of interactions under time constraints, we introduce a new game-theoretic setting called transparent game, where each player has a certain probability to observe the choice of the partner before deciding on its own action. Using evolutionary simulations, we demonstrate that even a small probability of seeing the partner's choice before one's own decision substantially changes evolutionary successful strategies. Action visibility enhances cooperation in a Bach-or-Stravinsky game, but disrupts cooperation in a more competitive iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. In both games, strategies based on the "Win-stay, lose-shift" and "Tit-for-tat" principles are predominant for moderate transparency, while for high transparency strategies of "Leader-Follower" type emerge. Our results have implications for studies of human and animal social behaviour, especially for the analysis of dyadic and group interactions.One of the most interesting questions in economics, biological, and social sciences is the emergence and maintenance of cooperation. A popular framework for studying cooperation (or the lack thereof) is Game Theory, which is frequently used to model interactions between "rational" decision-makers. In particular, a model for repeated interactions is provided by iterated games; two settings were previously used [1]:• Simultaneous games: players act at the same time without having any information about the current choice of the partners. Consequently, all players must make a decision under uncertainty concerning the choices of others.• Sequential games: players act in a certain order and the player acting later in the sequence is guaranteed to see the choices of the preceding players. Here the burden of uncertainty only applies to the first player or -if there are more than two players -becomes lighter with every turn in the sequence.Both settings place a simplifying restriction on the decisional context: either all players have no information about the choices of the partners (simultaneous game), or some players always have more information than others (sequential game). This simplification might be disadvantageous for modelling certain behaviours, since humans and animals usually act neither strictly simultaneously nor

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“…For comparative studies in social and adaptive decision‐making see Tremblay et al . () and Izquierdo & Belcher ().…”

Section: Decision‐making In Mice and Ratsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Considering their low rank in the mammalian evolutionary scale, decision-making in mice or rats may sound preposterous; nonetheless, adaptation of tasks used in human and non-human primates to study cognitive processes, has helped define in a more operational way what can be considered decision-making. For comparative studies in social and adaptive decision-making see Tremblay et al (2017) and Izquierdo & Belcher (2012).…”

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Thalamic afferents to prefrontal cortices from ventral motor nuclei in decision‐making

Sieveritz

García‐Muñoz

Arbuthnott

2018

Eur J of Neuroscience

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The focus of this literature review is on the three interacting brain areas that participate in decision‐making: basal ganglia, ventral motor thalamic nuclei, and medial prefrontal cortex, with an emphasis on the participation of the ventromedial and ventral anterior motor thalamic nuclei in prefrontal cortical function. Apart from a defining input from the mediodorsal thalamus, the prefrontal cortex receives inputs from ventral motor thalamic nuclei that combine to mediate typical prefrontal functions such as associative learning, action selection, and decision‐making. Motor, somatosensory and medial prefrontal cortices are mainly contacted in layer 1 by the ventral motor thalamic nuclei and in layer 3 by thalamocortical input from mediodorsal thalamus. We will review anatomical, electrophysiological, and behavioral evidence for the proposed participation of ventral motor thalamic nuclei and medial prefrontal cortex in rat and mouse motor decision‐making.

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Social Decision-Making and the Brain: A Comparative Perspective

Cited by 97 publications

References 121 publications

Summary: Order and Disorder in Brains and Behavior

Summary: Order and Disorder in Brains and Behavior

Emergence and suppression of cooperation by action visibility in transparent games

Thalamic afferents to prefrontal cortices from ventral motor nuclei in decision‐making

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