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SUBMITTER: Ereira S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7295766 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ereira Sam S Hauser Tobias U TU Moran Rani R Story Giles W GW Dolan Raymond J RJ Kurth-Nelson Zeb Z
Nature communications 20200615 1
Selectively attributing beliefs to specific agents is core to reasoning about other people and imagining oneself in different states. Evidence suggests humans might achieve this by simulating each other's computations in agent-specific neural circuits, but it is not known how circuits become agent-specific. Here we investigate whether agent-specificity adapts to social context. We train subjects on social learning tasks, manipulating the frequency with which self and other see the same informati ...[more]