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SUBMITTER: Suzuki S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4409560 | biostudies-other | 2015 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Suzuki Shinsuke S Adachi Ryo R Dunne Simon S Bossaerts Peter P O'Doherty John P JP
Neuron 20150409 2
Consensus building in a group is a hallmark of animal societies, yet little is known about its underlying computational and neural mechanisms. Here, we applied a computational framework to behavioral and fMRI data from human participants performing a consensus decision-making task with up to five other participants. We found that participants reached consensus decisions through integrating their own preferences with information about the majority group members' prior choices, as well as inferenc ...[more]