Trial reportSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2014
The neural underpinnings of an optimal exploitation of social information under uncertainty.
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- Behavioral and neural aftermath of right inferior frontal cortex disruption on ambiguous vocal emotion decisional processes.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Developmental differences in social information use under uncertainty: A neurocomputational approach.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2025Article
- Neural correlates of Bayesian social belief updating in the medial prefrontal cortex.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2025Article
- Neuropsychological mechanisms of observational learning in human placebo effects.Psychopharmacology · 2025Review
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- Social conformity is a heuristic when individual risky decision-making is disrupted.PLoS computational biology · 2024Article
- Brain structure correlates of social information use: an exploratory machine learning approach.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- Brain Systems Underlying Fundamental Motivations of Human Social Conformity.Neuroscience bulletin · 2023Review
- Frontal mechanisms underlying primate calls recognition by humans.Cerebral cortex communications · 2023Article
- Humans depart from optimal computational models of interactive decision-making during competition under partial information.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Characterization of the Core Determinants of Social Influence From a Computational and Cognitive Perspective.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Review
- I'm not a little kid anymore! Reciprocal social influence in child-adult interaction.Royal Society open science · 2021Article
- Dynamic modulation of social influence by indirect reciprocity.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Confidence Modulates the Conformity Behavior of the Investors and Neural Responses of Social Influence in Crowdfunding.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Modulating the Activity of vmPFC Regulates Informational Social Conformity: A tDCS Study.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- The Expression and Transfer of Valence Associated with Social Conformity.Scientific reports · 2019Article
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Abstract
Social information influences decision-making through an integration of information derived from individual experience with that derived from observing the actions of others. This raises the question as to which extent one should utilize social information. One strategy is to make use of uncertainty estimates, leading to a copy-when-uncertain strategy that weights information from individual and social sources based on their respective reliabilities. Here, we investigate this integration process by extending models of Bayes optimal integration of sensory information to a social decision context. We then use a key parameter of our behavioral model in conjunction with functional magnetic resonance imaging to identify the neural substrate that is specifically linked to the fidelity of this integration process. We show that individuals behave near Bayes optimal when integrating two distinct sources of social information but systematically deviate from Bayes optimal choice when integrating individual with social information. This systematic behavioral deviation from optimality is linked to activity of left inferior frontal gyrus. Thus, an ability to optimally exploit social information depends on processes that overcome an egocentric bias, and this regulatory role involves the left inferior prefrontal cortex. The findings provide a mechanistic explanation for observations wherein individuals neglect the benefits from exploiting social information.
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