SynthesisNeuroscience and biobehavioral reviews2019
Love is analogous to money in human brain: Coordinate-based and functional connectivity meta-analyses of social and monetary reward anticipation.
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62 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Social reward processing in depressed and healthy individuals across the lifespan: A systematic review and a preliminary coordinate-based meta-analysis of fMRI studies.Behavioural brain research · 2023Pooled it
- Altered neural mechanism of social reward anticipation in individuals with schizophrenia and social anhedonia.European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience · 2023Pooled it
- Risk-taking in the human brain: An activation likelihood estimation meta-analysis of the balloon analog risk task (BART).Human brain mapping · 2022Pooled it
- Learning under social versus nonsocial uncertainty: A meta-analytic approach.Human brain mapping · 2022Pooled it
- Neural substrates of motivational dysfunction across neuropsychiatric conditions: Evidence from meta-analysis and lesion network mapping.Clinical psychology review · 2022Pooled it
- Does losing money truly hurt? The shared neural bases of monetary loss and pain.Human brain mapping · 2022Pooled it
- Common and distinct brain activity associated with risky and ambiguous decision-making.Drug and alcohol dependence · 2020Pooled it
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- Changes in neural reward processing following Amplification of Positivity treatment for depression and anxiety: Preliminary findings from a randomized waitlist controlled trial.Behaviour research and therapy · 2021Trial
- Dopaminergic modulation of social reward anticipation in depression: neural effects of amisulpride versus placebo.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026Article
- An Underestimation Bias in the Numerical Perception of Rewarding Stimuli: An ERP Study.Journal of Intelligence · 2026Article
- Advancing scientific understanding of the drive to socially engage: from broad constructs to transdiagnostic 'building blocks'.Molecular psychiatry · 2026Review
- Brain Activation Features in Response to the Expectation of Receiving Rewards Through Aggression.Brain sciences · 2025Article
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Abstract
Both social and material rewards play a crucial role in daily life and function as strong incentives for various goal-directed behaviors. However, it remains unclear whether the incentive effects of social and material reward are supported by common or distinct neural circuits. Here, we have addressed this issue by quantitatively synthesizing and comparing neural signatures underlying social (21 contrasts, 207 foci, 696 subjects) and monetary (94 contrasts, 1083 foci, 2060 subjects) reward anticipation. We demonstrated that social and monetary reward anticipation engaged a common neural circuit consisting of the ventral tegmental area, ventral striatum, anterior insula, and supplementary motor area, which are intensively connected during both task and resting states. Functional decoding findings indicate that this generic neural pathway mediates positive value, motivational relevance, and action preparation during reward anticipation, which together motivate individuals to prepare well for the response to the upcoming target. Our findings support the common neural currency hypothesis by providing the first meta-analytic evidence to quantitatively show the common involvement of brain regions in both social and material reward anticipation.
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