Dissociable contributions of the prefrontal cortex in group-based cooperation.

ABSTRACT: The success of our political institutions, environmental stewardship and evolutionary fitness all hinge on our ability to prioritize collective-interest over self-interest. Despite considerable interest in the neuro-cognitive processes that underlie group cooperation, the evidence to date is inconsistent. Several papers support models of prosocial restraint, while more recent work supports models of prosocial intuition. We evaluate these competing models using a sample of lesion patients with damage to brain regions previously implicated in intuition and deliberation. Compared to matched control participants (brain damaged and healthy controls), we found that patients with dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (dlPFC) damage were less likely to cooperate in a modified public goods game, whereas p

SUBMITTER: Wills J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5928404 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature