Humans use forward thinking to exploit social controllability
| Autor: | Vincenzo G. Fiore, Ofer Perl, Sylvia Blackmore, Jennifer Jung, Peter Dayan, Andreas Hula, Soojung Na, Matthew Heflin, Dongil Chung, Xiaosi Gu |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Male computational modeling Exploit Computer science QH301-705.5 Science Social Interaction Ventromedial prefrontal cortex Prefrontal Cortex controllability General Biochemistry Genetics and Molecular Biology Thinking Young Adult forward thinking vmPFC medicine Social decision making Humans Biology (General) General Immunology and Microbiology medicine.diagnostic_test Mechanism (biology) General Neuroscience Social environment model-based planning Cognition General Medicine Magnetic Resonance Imaging Texas Controllability medicine.anatomical_structure Medicine Female social decision-making Functional magnetic resonance imaging Research Article Neuroscience Human Cognitive psychology |
| Zdroj: | eLife, Vol 10 (2021) eLife |
| Popis: | The controllability of our social environment has a profound impact on our behavior and mental health. Nevertheless, neurocomputational mechanisms underlying social controllability remain elusive. Here, 48 participants performed a task where their current choices either did (Controllable), or did not (Uncontrollable), influence partners’ future proposals. Computational modeling revealed that people engaged a mental model of forward thinking (FT; i.e., calculating the downstream effects of current actions) to estimate social controllability in both Controllable and Uncontrollable conditions. A large-scale online replication study (n=1342) supported this finding. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (n=48), we further demonstrated that the ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC) computed the projected total values of current actions during forward planning, supporting the neural realization of the forward-thinking model. These findings demonstrate that humans use vmPFC-dependent FT to estimate and exploit social controllability, expanding the role of this neurocomputational mechanism beyond spatial and cognitive contexts. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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