Neural mechanisms of social decision-making in the primate amygdala
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Significance: Making social decisions requires evaluation of benefits and costs to self and others. Long associated with emotion and vigilance, neurons in primate amygdala also signal reward and punishment as well as information about the faces and eyes of others. Here we show that neurons in the basolateral amygdala signal the value of rewards for self and others when monkeys make social decisions. These value-mirroring neurons reflected monkeys’ tendency to make prosocial decisions on a momentary as well as long-term basis. We also found that delivering the social peptide oxytocin into basolateral amygdala enhances both prosocial tendencies and attention to the recipients of prosocial decisions. Our findings endorse the amygdala as a critical neural nexus regulating social decisions.
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In nonhuman primates, focal infusion of oxytocin into the amygdala significantly increases prosocial decisions.
“In nonhuman primates, exogenous inhaled oxytocin promotes social donation behavior 26 and focal infusion of oxytocin into the amygdala significantly increases prosocial decisions 7 .”
From Oxytocin modulates social value representations in the amygdala (2019) · cites this paper as [7]
Individual differences in social preferences in nonhuman primates are due in part to oxytocinergic regulation of amygdala-related neural circuits.
“Individual differences in social preferences in nonhuman primates have been shown to be due in part to oxytocinergic regulation of amygdala-related neural circuits 6,7 .”
From Oxytocin modulates social value representations in the amygdala (2019) · cites this paper as [7]
This result is consistent with studies in both nonhuman primates and in human neuroimaging studies suggesting that the amygdala represents how undesirable an outcome is.
“This result is consistent with studies in both nonhuman primates 7 and in human neuroimaging studies 16 suggesting that the amygdala represents how undesirable an outcome is.”
From Oxytocin modulates social value representations in the amygdala (2019) · cites this paper as [7]
Previous findings link prosocial decisions with several hubs in the social brain network, including the amygdala, ventral striatum and TPJ.
“Moreover, we found evidence that social value distance is also encoded by neural responses in the ventral striatum and TPJ in prosocials, consistent with previous findings linking prosocial decisions with several hubs in the social brain network 7,36 , including the amygdala, ventral striatum and TPJ.”
From Oxytocin modulates social value representations in the amygdala (2019) · cites this paper as [7]
The amygdala plays a critical role in allocating attention to other people and in integrating social information and social emotions into decision-making.
“This is consistent with studies showing that the amygdala plays a critical role in allocating attention to other people 7 and in integrating social information 42 and social emotions 13 into decision-making.”
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Self-citationPrefrontal cortex interactions with the amygdala in primates
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“The same types of stimuli also activate the primate amygdala (Chang et al., 2015; Gothard et al., 2007; Livneh et al., 2012; Sliwa and Freiwald, 2017).”
BackgroundDynamic influences on the neural encoding of social valence
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BackgroundFrom the field to the lab and back: neuroethology of primate social behavior
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Lesions of the rat basolateral amygdala reduce the behavioral response to ultrasonic vocalizations
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“The innate preference for the eyes is further enhanced by IN OT in both species (Auyeung et al., 2015; Dal Monte, Noble, Costa, et al., 2014; Guastella et al., 2008).”
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“By contrast, the amygdala studies lacked such a behavioral element as resource limitation and instead involved prosocial choices (26) and observational learning (25).”
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“Noteworthy in that respect, neurons in the primate BLA can signal the value of rewards either for the self or for others (61).”
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“This has been confirmed in non-human primate model by showing that administration of oxytocin into the amygdala enhanced the prosocial behaviour in macaque monkeys [33].”
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“Several recent studies have focused on the role of subcortical structures in social reward monitoring, such as the hypothalamus (Noritake et al. 2020) and the amygdala (Chang et al. 2015; Grabenhorst et al. 2019; Dal Monte et al. 2020).”
BackgroundSocial processing by the primate medial frontal cortex
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“The amygdala and PC are major targets of the olfactory system and have close interactions with the SON in social recognition (Chang et al., 2015).”
BackgroundNeural representation of others during action observation in posterior medial prefrontal cortex
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BackgroundSpecialized medial prefrontal-amygdala coordination in other-regarding decision preferencePreprint
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Self-citation
- Authors
- Chang, S. W. C., Fagan, N. A., Toda, K., Utevsky, A. V., Pearson, J. M., & Platt, M. L.
- Affiliations
- Yale University (US)
- Duke University (US)
- Venue
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
- Publisher
- National Academy of Sciences
- Published
- 2015-12-14
- Volume
- 112
- Issue
- 52
- Pages
- 16012-16017
- ISSN
- 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
- 1091-6490
- PMC
- PMC4702988
- OpenAlex
- W2217623521
- Cited by
- 157
- References
- 69
- Citations by year
- 2026: 5 · 2025: 19 · 2024: 14 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 15 · 2021: 19 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 18 · 2018: 21 · 2017: 12 · 2016: 11
- FWCI
- 24.06
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- HHS | NIH | National Institute of Mental Health (R00-MH099093, R01-MH095894)
- DOD | Army Research Office (W81XWH-11-1-0584)
- Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (No number)
- HHS | NIH | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (K01-ES-025442)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Keywords
- social decision-making, amygdala, basolateral amygdala, oxytocin, dictator game, prosocial behavior, reward valuation, punishment, social preferences, neuromodulation, primate social behavior
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Choice Behavior, Cues, Decision Making, Humans, Macaca mulatta, Markov Chains, Models, Neurological, Monte Carlo Method, Neural Pathways, Neurons, Oxytocics, Oxytocin, Reward, Social Behavior, Basolateral Nuclear Complex
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