Anterior cingulate cortex: A brain system necessary for learning to reward others?
Helping a friend move house, donating to charity, volunteering assistance during a crisis. Humans and other species alike regularly undertake prosocial behaviors—actions that benefit others without necessarily helping ourselves. But how does the brain learn what acts are prosocial? Basile and collea...
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2020
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| author | Lockwood, PL O’Nell, KC Apps, MAJ |
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| description | Helping a friend move house, donating to charity, volunteering assistance during a crisis. Humans and other species alike regularly undertake prosocial behaviors—actions that benefit others without necessarily helping ourselves. But how does the brain learn what acts are prosocial? Basile and colleagues show that removal of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) prevents monkeys from learning what actions are prosocial but does not stop them carrying out previously learned prosocial behaviors. This highlights that the ability to learn what actions are prosocial and choosing to perform helpful acts may be distinct cognitive processes, with only the former depending on ACC. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:63d364d6-b8df-4c02-935a-b3a57fa7daf82022-03-26T18:15:25ZAnterior cingulate cortex: A brain system necessary for learning to reward others?Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:63d364d6-b8df-4c02-935a-b3a57fa7daf8EnglishSymplectic ElementsPublic Library of Science2020Lockwood, PLO’Nell, KCApps, MAJHelping a friend move house, donating to charity, volunteering assistance during a crisis. Humans and other species alike regularly undertake prosocial behaviors—actions that benefit others without necessarily helping ourselves. But how does the brain learn what acts are prosocial? Basile and colleagues show that removal of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) prevents monkeys from learning what actions are prosocial but does not stop them carrying out previously learned prosocial behaviors. This highlights that the ability to learn what actions are prosocial and choosing to perform helpful acts may be distinct cognitive processes, with only the former depending on ACC. |
| spellingShingle | Lockwood, PL O’Nell, KC Apps, MAJ Anterior cingulate cortex: A brain system necessary for learning to reward others? |
| title | Anterior cingulate cortex: A brain system necessary for learning to reward others? |
| title_full | Anterior cingulate cortex: A brain system necessary for learning to reward others? |
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