Higher or lower? The functional anatomy of perceived allocentric social hierarchies

Farrow, Tom F.D.; Jones, Sarah; Kaylor-Hughes, Catherine; Wilkinson, Iain D.; Woodruff, Peter; Hunter, Michael D.; Spence, Sean A.

doi:10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.05.069

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“…This implies that rank-associated differences in lateral prefrontal activity are specific to human social hierarchies. A similar specificity of activation to social hierarchy by the VLPFC (BA 47) was observed by Farrow et al (2011). In this study, the VLPFC showed higher activity when their participants were asked to compare the social status of people in pictures than when they were asked to compare the magnitude of digits.…”

Section: Neural Substrates Of Social Dominancesupporting

confidence: 82%

“…Although these findings support the involvement of both the DLPFC (Zink et al, 2008; Marsh et al, 2009) and VLPFC (Chiao et al, 2009; Marsh et al, 2009; Farrow et al, 2011) in the perception of dominance, the functional differences between the VLPFC and DLPFC remain slightly confusing. This may be due to inconsistencies in the definitions of the DLPFC and the VLPFC or to the fact that a variety of experimental tasks were employed from study to study and, as a result, a direct comparison of these regions is not possible.…”

Section: Neural Substrates Of Social Dominancementioning

confidence: 87%

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Neural mechanisms of social dominance

Watanabe¹,

Yamamoto

2015

Front. Neurosci.

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In a group setting, individuals' perceptions of their own level of dominance or of the dominance level of others, and the ability to adequately control their behavior based on these perceptions are crucial for living within a social environment. Recent advances in neural imaging and molecular technology have enabled researchers to investigate the neural substrates that support the perception of social dominance and the formation of a social hierarchy in humans. At the systems' level, recent studies showed that dominance perception is represented in broad brain regions which include the amygdala, hippocampus, striatum, and various cortical networks such as the prefrontal, and parietal cortices. Additionally, neurotransmitter systems such as the dopaminergic and serotonergic systems, modulate and are modulated by the formation of the social hierarchy in a group. While these monoamine systems have a wide distribution and multiple functions, it was recently found that the Neuropeptide B/W contributes to the perception of dominance and is present in neurons that have a limited projection primarily to the amygdala. The present review discusses the specific roles of these neural regions and neurotransmitter systems in the perception of dominance and in hierarchy formation.

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Section: Neural Substrates Of Social Dominancesupporting

confidence: 82%

Section: Neural Substrates Of Social Dominancementioning

confidence: 87%

Neural mechanisms of social dominance

Watanabe¹,

Yamamoto

2015

Front. Neurosci.

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“…In some cases, status judgments can be based on the contents of declarative memory—for example, when one has prior experience with other people in their social roles. This kind of conceptual status judgment, however, best characterizes formal status hierarchies about which third-party observers have preexisting knowledge, such as the Navy hierarchy in Chiao and colleagues’ research (Chiao et al, 2004, 2009; see also Farrow et al, 2011). Many status judgments occur in novel contexts or in situations with ambiguous information about individuals’ social standing.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Whereas previous neuroscientific investigations of status have measured neural activity while people judged isolated social targets (e.g., Cloutier et al, 2012; Muscatell et al, 2012; Farrow et al, 2011; Lindner, Hundhammer, Ciaramidaro, Linden, & Mussweiler, 2008), we measured neural activity while people judged status from social interactions where it was on display.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Neural Substrates of Social Status Inference: Roles of Medial Prefrontal Cortex and Superior Temporal Sulcus

Mason¹,

Magee

Fiske³

2014

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

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The negotiation of social order is intimately connected to the capacity to infer and track status relationships. Despite the foundational role of status in social cognition, we know little about how the brain constructs status from social interactions that display it. Although emerging cognitive neuroscience reveals that status judgments depend on the intraparietal sulcus, a brain region that supports the comparison of targets along a quantitative continuum, we present evidence that status judgments do not necessarily reduce to ranking targets along a quantitative continuum. The process of judging status also fits a social interdependence analysis. Consistent with third-party perceivers judging status by inferring whose goals are dictating the terms of the interaction and who is subordinating their desires to whom, status judgments were associated with increased recruitment of medial pFC and STS, brain regions implicated in mental state inference.

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“…the 'correct' impression to portray may vary from situation to situation) and is also closely associated with social conformity. We have previously reported a role for the ventrolateral prefrontal cortex (vlPFC) in judging social hierarchies (Farrow et al, 2011), and these judgments may be an important component in selecting the appropriate impression to project. The role of vlPFC in modulating and judging socially appropriate behaviour (i.e.…”

Section: Impression-managementmentioning

confidence: 99%