Dorsolateral and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex track distinct properties of dynamic social behavior.

ABSTRACT: Understanding how humans make competitive decisions in complex environments is a key goal of decision neuroscience. Typical experimental paradigms constrain behavioral complexity (e.g. choices in discrete-play games), and thus, the underlying neural mechanisms of dynamic social interactions remain incompletely understood. Here, we collected fMRI data while humans played a competitive real-time video game against both human and computer opponents, and then, we used Bayesian non-parametric methods to link behavior to neural mechanisms. Two key cognitive processes characterized behavior in our task: (i) the coupling of one's actions to another's actions (i.e. opponent sensitivity) and (ii) the advantageous timing of a given strategic action. We found that the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex di

SUBMITTER: McDonald KR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7308662 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature