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ArticleNeuron2024

Closed-loop microstimulations of the orbitofrontal cortex during real-life gaze interaction enhance dynamic social attention.

Siqi Fan, Olga Dal Monte, Amrita R Nair, Nicholas A Fagan, Steve W C Chang

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Article in Neuron, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Neural Bases of Collective Social Behavior and Group Interactions across Species.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors.

Siqi FanDepartment of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; The Laboratory of Neural Systems, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Olga Dal MonteDepartment of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA; Department of Psychology, University of Turin, 10124 Torino, Italy.
Amrita R NairDepartment of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
Nicholas A FaganDepartment of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
Steve W C ChangDepartment of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT 06520, 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
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH110750NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH120081NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH128190
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neurons from multiple prefrontal areas encode several key variables of social gaze interaction. To explore the causal roles of the primate prefrontal cortex in real-life gaze interaction, we applied weak closed-loop microstimulations that were precisely triggered by specific social gaze events. Microstimulations of the orbitofrontal cortex, but not the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex or the anterior cingulate cortex, enhanced momentary dynamic social attention in the spatial dimension by decreasing the distance of fixations relative to a partner's eyes and in the temporal dimension by reducing the inter-looking interval and the latency to reciprocate the other's directed gaze. By contrast, on a longer timescale, microstimulations of the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex modulated inter-individual gaze dynamics relative to one's own gaze positions. These findings demonstrate that multiple regions in the primate prefrontal cortex may serve as functionally accessible nodes in controlling different aspects of dynamic social attention and suggest their potential for a therapeutic brain interface.

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AttentionFixation, OcularMacaca mulattaPrefrontal CortexAnimalsMaleSocial Interactionanterior cingulate cortexclosed-loop microstimulationdorsomedial prefrontal cortexdynamic social attentionnaturalistic social behaviornonhuman primatesorbitofrontal cortexprefrontal cortexreal-life social gaze interaction

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PMID38823391
PMCPMC11309918

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