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ArticleNeuron2023

Dissociation of vicarious and experienced rewards by coupling frequency within the same neural pathway.

Philip T Putnam, Cheng-Chi J Chu, Nicholas A Fagan, Olga Dal Monte, Steve W C Chang

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Article in Neuron, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

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  4. The Anterior Cingulate Cortex and Prosocial Behavior toward Others in Negative State.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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  6. Monitoring Attention in Self and Others.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2025
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  7. Oxytocin in the Amygdala Sustains Prosocial Behavior via State-Dependent Amygdala-Prefrontal Modulation.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Philip T PutnamDepartment of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
Cheng-Chi J ChuDepartment of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
Nicholas A FaganDepartment of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA.
Olga Dal MonteDepartment of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Torino, Italy.
Steve W C ChangDepartment of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06511, USA; Department of Neuroscience, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA; Kavli Institute for Neuroscience, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA; Wu Tsai Institute, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06510, USA. Electronic address: steve.chang@yale.edu.

Funding

Prefrontal and Amygdalar Mechanisms of Live Social Gaze InteractionR01MH128190 · NIMH · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Steve W. C. Chang · 2022 to 2026
$2.9M
Behavioral and Neural Bases of Combining Oxytocin and Naloxone for Optimally Enhancing Interactive Social AttentionR01MH120081 · NIMH · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI CHANG, STEVE W. C. · 2019 to 2023
$2.7M
Toward A Macaque Model Of Social Brain Dysfunction In Real-Life Social InteractionsR01MH110750 · NIMH · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI CHANG, STEVE W. C. · 2016 to 2020
$2.5M
Role of Oxytocin in the Amygdala-Prefrontal Network During Social Decision-MakingR00MH099093 · NIMH · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI CHANG, STEVE W. C. · 2014 to 2016
$747k
Neural mechanisms of reward-guided reciprocityR21MH107853 · NIMH · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI CHANG, STEVE W. C. · 2015 to 2016
$411k
NIMH NIH HHS R00 MH099093NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH110750NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH120081NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH128190NIMH NIH HHS R21 MH107853
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Vicarious reward, essential to social learning and decision making, is theorized to engage select brain regions similarly to experienced reward to generate a shared experience. However, it is just as important for neural systems to also differentiate vicarious from experienced rewards for social interaction. Here, we investigated the neuronal interaction between the primate anterior cingulate cortex gyrus (ACCg) and the basolateral amygdala (BLA) when social choices made by monkeys led to either vicarious or experienced reward. Coherence between ACCg spikes and BLA local field potential (LFP) selectively increased in gamma frequencies for vicarious reward, whereas it selectively increased in alpha/beta frequencies for experienced reward. These respectively enhanced couplings for vicarious and experienced rewards were uniquely observed following voluntary choices. Moreover, reward outcomes had consistently strong directional influences from ACCg to BLA. Our findings support a mechanism of vicarious reward where social agency is tagged by interareal coordination frequency within the same shared pathway.

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Basolateral Nuclear ComplexRewardAnimalsBrainDecision MakingGyrus CinguliNeural Pathwaysanterior cingulate cortexbasolateral amygdalaexperienced rewardnon-human primatessocial brainsocial decision-makingspike-field coherencevicarious reward

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PMID37348507
PMCPMC10527039

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