Anterior Cingulate Cortex Signals Attention in a Social Paradigm that Manipulates Reward and Shock.

ABSTRACT: The ability to recognize emotions in others and adapt one's behavior accordingly is critical for functioning in any social context. This ability is impaired in several psychiatric disorders, such as autism and psychopathy. Recent work has identified the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) among other brain regions involved in this process. Neural recording studies have shown that neurons in ACC are modulated by reward or shock when delivered to a conspecific and when experienced first-hand. Because previous studies do not vary reward and shock within the same experiment, it has been unclear whether the observed activity reflects how much attention is being paid to outcomes delivered to a conspecific or the valence associated with those stimuli. To address this issue, we recorded from ACC as ra

SUBMITTER: Schneider KN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7541607 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature