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Associative learning of social value

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Our decisions are guided by information learnt from our environment. This information may come via personal experiences of reward, but also from the behaviour of social partners. Social learning is widely held to be distinct from other forms of learning in its mechanism and neural implementation; it is often assumed to compete with simpler mechanisms, such as reward-based associative learning, to drive behaviour. Recently, neural signals have been observed during social exchange reminiscent of signals seen in studies of associative learning. Here we demonstrate that social information may be acquired using the same associative processes assumed to underlie reward-based learning. We find that key computational variables for learning in the social and reward domains are processed in a similar fashion, but in parallel neural processing streams. Two neighbouring divisions of the anterior cingulate cortex were central to learning about social and reward-based information, and for determining the extent to which each source of information guides behaviour. When making a decision, however, the information learnt using these parallel streams was combined within ventromedial prefrontal cortex. These findings suggest that human social valuation can be realized by means of the same associative processes previously established for learning other, simpler, features of the environment.

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Authors
Behrens, T. E. J., Hunt, L. T., Woolrich, M. W., & Rushworth, M. F. S.
Affiliations
John Radcliffe Hospital (GB)
Corresponding author
Behrens, Timothy E. J.
Venue
Nature
Published
2008-11
Volume
456
Issue
7219
Pages
245-249
ISSN
  • 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
  • 1476-4687
OpenAlex
W2056448794
Cited by
925
References
34
Citations by year
2026: 42 · 2025: 52 · 2024: 36 · 2023: 58 · 2022: 49 · 2021: 69 · 2020: 54 · 2019: 65 · 2018: 54 · 2017: 62 · 2016: 64 · 2015: 53 · 2014: 52 · 2013: 62 · 2012: 56
FWCI
16.59
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nature (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • RePEc: Research Papers in Economics (submittedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
Funders
Wellcome Trust
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience › Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
Keywords
social valuation, social learning, associative learning, reward learning, decision-making, advice taking, anterior cingulate cortex, ventromedial prefrontal cortex, social exchange, computational models of learning
MeSH terms
Adult, Female, Humans, Learning, Male, Middle Aged, Reward, Social Behavior, Models, Statistical, Prefrontal Cortex

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