reviewNeuronMay 1, 2016HYBRID OA

The Anterior Cingulate Gyrus and Social Cognition: Tracking the Motivation of Others

MAMatthew A J AppsMFMatthew F. S. RushworthSWSteve W. C. Chang

University of Oxford · Yale University

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Abstract

The anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is implicated in a broad range of behaviors and cognitive processes, but it has been unclear what contribution, if any, the ACC makes to social behavior. We argue that anatomical and functional evidence suggests that a specific sub-region of ACC-in the gyrus (ACCg)-plays a crucial role in processing social information. We propose that the computational properties of the ACCg support a contribution to social cognition by estimating how motivated other individuals are and dynamically updating those estimates when further evidence suggests they have been erroneous. Notably this model, based on vicarious motivation and error processing, provides a unified account of…

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  • Cognition
  • Psychology
  • Anterior cingulate cortex
  • Social cognition
  • Cognitive psychology
  • Neuroimaging
  • Mechanism (biology)
  • Social neuroscience
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