ReviewBehavioural brain research2021
Functions of primate amygdala neurons in economic decisions and social decision simulation.
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- Value coding by primate amygdala neurons complies with the continuity axiom of economic choice theory.Journal of neurophysiology · 2026Article
- Differential and Temporally Dynamic Involvement of Primate Amygdala Nuclei in Face Reality and Reward Information Processing.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Collateralization patterns of principal basolateral amygdala neurons delineate distinct output streams.iScience · 2025Article
- Social Risk Coding by Amygdala Activity and Connectivity with the Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025Article
- Decision-Making with Predictions of Others' Likely and Unlikely Choices in the Human Brain.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Dorsal and ventral fronto-amygdala networks underlie risky decision-making in age-related cognitive decline.GeroScience · 2024Article
- The amygdala and the pursuit of future rewards.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Review
- The Neural Separability of Emotion Reactivity and Regulation.Affective science · 2023Article
- The orbitofrontal cortex: A goal-directed cognitive map framework for social and non-social behaviors.Neurobiology of learning and memory · 2023Review
- Emotion, motivation, decision-making, the orbitofrontal cortex, anterior cingulate cortex, and the amygdala.Brain structure & function · 2023Review
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- Multiple routes of communication within the amygdala-mPFC network: A comparative approach in humans and macaques.Current research in neurobiology · 2023Review
- Domain-specific neural substrates underlie the framing effect.Neuroimage. Reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
Long implicated in aversive processing, the amygdala is now recognized as a key component of the brain systems that process rewards. Beyond reward valuation, recent findings from single-neuron recordings in monkeys indicate that primate amygdala neurons also play an important role in decision-making. The reward value signals encoded by amygdala neurons constitute suitable inputs to economic decision processes by being sensitive to reward contingency, relative reward quantity and temporal reward structure. During reward-based decisions, individual amygdala neurons encode both the value inputs and corresponding choice outputs of economic decision processes. The presence of such value-to-choice transitions in single amygdala neurons, together with other well-defined signatures of decision computation, indicate that a decision mechanism may be implemented locally within the primate amygdala. During social observation, specific amygdala neurons spontaneously encode these decision signatures to predict the choices of social partners, suggesting neural simulation of the partner's decision-making. The activity of these 'simulation neurons' could arise naturally from convergence between value neurons and social, self-other discriminating neurons. These findings identify single-neuron building blocks and computational architectures for decision-making and social behavior in the primate amygdala. An emerging understanding of the decision function of primate amygdala neurons can help identify potential vulnerabilities for amygdala dysfunction in human conditions afflicting social cognition and mental health.
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