ArticleHuman brain mapping2017
Increases in brain activity during social competition predict decreases in working memory performance and later recall.
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- Disrupted brain functional networks in adolescents and young adults with gaming disorder during social interaction: An fNIRS study.Psychological medicine · 2026Article
- A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Investigation of Hot and Cool Executive Functions in Reward and Competition.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Brain bases of real-time social interaction: A meta-analytic investigation of human neuroimaging studies.Aperture neuro · 2025Article
- Acute psychosocial stress modulates neural and behavioral substrates of cognitive control.Human brain mapping · 2024Article
- Pseudo-mutual gazing enhances interbrain synchrony during remote joint attention tasking.Brain and behavior · 2023Article
- Maternal neglect alters reward-anticipatory behavior, social status stability, and reward circuit activation in adult male rats.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2023Article
- Unsuppressed Striatal Activity and Genetic Risk for Schizophrenia Associated With Individual Cognitive Performance Under Social Competition.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2022Article
- How does social competition affect true and false recognition?Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2021Article
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Abstract
In our fMRI experiment, participants completed a learning task in both a noncompetitive and a socially competitive learning environment. Despite reporting a preference for completing the task while competing, participants remembered significantly more during the task and later recalled more from the noncompetitive learning environment. Furthermore, during working memory maintenance, there was performance-related deactivation in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and the precuneus/PCC. During feedback presentation, there was greater activation in the mPFC and the precuneus/PCC while competing. Differential activation in the precuneus/PCC predicted worse later recall for information learned competitively. Since previous research suggests that the mPFC is involved in social-referencing, while the precuneus/PCC is implicated in off-task thoughts, our results suggest that receiving feedback regarding competition produces more activation in brain regions implicated in social interaction, as well as task distraction. While competition may make a task more enjoyable, the goal of winning may distract from maximizing performance. Hum Brain Mapp 38:457-471, 2017. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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