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SUBMITTER: Seo H
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4201877 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Seo Hyojung H Cai Xinying X Donahue Christopher H CH Lee Daeyeol D
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20140918 6207
Although human and animal behaviors are largely shaped by reinforcement and punishment, choices in social settings are also influenced by information about the knowledge and experience of other decision-makers. During competitive games, monkeys increased their payoffs by systematically deviating from a simple heuristic learning algorithm and thereby countering the predictable exploitation by their computer opponent. Neurons in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex (dmPFC) signaled the animal's recen ...[more]