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Social subjective value in the primate midbrain

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How we value our own rewards depends on what others have. A new study shows that neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex selectively monitor the value of rewards received by oneself or by another individual, whereas midbrain dopaminergic neurons integrate these values to generate social subjective reward values.

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Fig. 1: Neural response types encoding reward values for the self and others.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the National Institute of Mental Health (R01 MH110750). We thank A. Nair and S.S. Chang for helpful comments.

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  1. Department of Psychology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

    Olga Dal Monte, Siqi Fan & Steve W. C. Chang

  2. Department of Neuroscience, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

    Steve W. C. Chang

  3. Kavli Institute for Neuroscience, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA

    Steve W. C. Chang

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Dal Monte, O., Fan, S. & Chang, S.W.C. Social subjective value in the primate midbrain. Nat Neurosci 21, 1298–1299 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-018-0230-1

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