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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, exogenous inhaled oxytocin promotes social donation behavior 26 and focal infusion of oxytocin into the amygdala significantly increases prosocial decisions 7 .”
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“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 .”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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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- 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
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Endocrine and Autonomic Systems › 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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