The neuroeconomics of strategic interaction

Griessinger, Thibaud; Coricelli, Giorgio

doi:10.1016/j.cobeha.2015.01.012

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“…The predominance of prefrontal involvement in SOIS-related regions across clinical samples indicates that frontal structures are critical for long-term social bargaining in comparison with other insular, temporal or posterior structures. Complementary multidimensional findings further suggest that strategic reasoning in social decision-making calls on complex neurocognitive mechanisms (Griessinger and Coricelli, 2015), and that the disruption of any of them can compromise the normal deployment of such skill. The variability in the specific prefrontal structures recruited by each group, together with the involvement of other (i) frontotemporal regions associated with ongoing oscillations; and (ii) frontotemporo-parietal functional networks, emphasize the need to identify the contribution of large-scale network interactions.…”

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confidence: 91%

Your perspective and my benefit: multiple lesion models of self-other integration strategies during social bargaining

Melloni

Billeke

Báez

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Recursive social decision-making requires the use of flexible, context-sensitive long-term strategies for negotiation. To succeed in social bargaining, participants' own perspectives must be dynamically integrated with those of interactors to maximize self-benefits and adapt to the other's preferences, respectively. This is a prerequisite to develop a successful long-term self-other integration strategy. While such form of strategic interaction is critical to social decision-making, little is known about its neurocognitive correlates. To bridge this gap, we analysed social bargaining behaviour in relation to its structural neural correlates, ongoing brain dynamics (oscillations and related source space), and functional connectivity signatures in healthy subjects and patients offering contrastive lesion models of neurodegeneration and focal stroke: behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia, Alzheimer's disease, and frontal lesions. All groups showed preserved basic bargaining indexes. However, impaired self-other integration strategy was found in patients with behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia and frontal lesions, suggesting that social bargaining critically depends on the integrity of prefrontal regions. Also, associations between behavioural performance and data from voxel-based morphometry and voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping revealed a critical role of prefrontal regions in value integration and strategic decisions for self-other integration strategy. Furthermore, as shown by measures of brain dynamics and related sources during the task, the self-other integration strategy was predicted by brain anticipatory activity (alpha/beta oscillations with sources in frontotemporal regions) associated with expectations about others' decisions. This pattern was reduced in all clinical groups, with greater impairments in behavioural variant frontotemporal dementia and frontal lesions than Alzheimer's disease. Finally, connectivity analysis from functional magnetic resonance imaging evidenced a fronto-temporo-parietal network involved in successful self-other integration strategy, with selective compromise of long-distance connections in frontal disorders. In sum, this work provides unprecedented evidence of convergent behavioural and neurocognitive signatures of strategic social bargaining in different lesion models. Our findings offer new insights into the critical roles of prefrontal hubs and associated temporo-parietal networks for strategic social negotiation.

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Section: Resultsmentioning

confidence: 91%

Your perspective and my benefit: multiple lesion models of self-other integration strategies during social bargaining

Melloni

Billeke

Báez

et al. 2016

Brain

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100

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“…For example, during a rock-paper-scissors game, each option beats one of the other two options but loses to the remaining one. Therefore, the ability to predict the choices of others and their underlying cognitive processes, often referred to as the theory of mind, plays an important role during social interactions [12, 13]. In this review, we will focus on the psychological processes of strategic reasoning during social interactions and their underlying neural mechanisms.…”

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“…In particular, the information decoded from the ensemble activity in the hippocampus might be related to the internal simulation of the animal’s future actions [67–69]. Simulating the outcomes from alternative actions during social decision making might also rely on a set of cortical areas often associated with the theory of mind, such as the dmPFC and TPJ [6, 7, 13, 70, 71]. Although it has been suggested that the theory of mind is uniquely human, the middle superior temporal sulcus (STS) in the macaque brain displays a pattern of resting-state functional connectivity that is similar to that of the human TPJ [72].…”

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Neural Basis of Strategic Decision Making

Lee

Seo

2016

Trends in Neurosciences

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Human choice behaviors during social interactions often deviate from the predictions of game theory. This might arise partly from the limitations in cognitive abilities necessary for recursive reasoning about the behaviors of others. In addition, during iterative social interactions, choices might change dynamically, as knowledge about the intentions of others and estimates for choice outcomes are incrementally updated via reinforcement learning. Some of the brain circuits utilized during social decision making might be general-purpose and contribute to isomorphic individual and social decision making. By contrast, regions in the medial prefrontal cortex and temporal parietal junction might be recruited for cognitive processes unique to social decision making.

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“…Players' strategies in these games allow for optimizing their own payoffs while also considering the strategy utilized by other players. Interestingly, individuals are rarely able to reason more than two steps ahead of other individuals, (i.e., more than two levels of such conditional reasoning: "I think that you think that I think") (Camerer, Ho, & Chong, 2004;Griessinger & Coricelli, 2015;Stahl & Wilson, 1995). Even in non-strategic contexts, individuals have been shown to exhibit limits on the amount of recursive reasoning they are capable of, such as during theory-of-mind tasks that require inferring the motives of fictionalized agents (e.g., Happ e, 1994) or, more generally, parsing language comprised of numerous embedded clauses (Karlsson, 2010).…”

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The Flatland Fallacy: Moving Beyond Low Dimensional Thinking

Jolly¹,

Chang²

2017

Preprint

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Psychology is a complicated science. It has no general axioms or mathematical proofs, is rarely directly observable, and is the only discipline in which the subject matter (i.e., human psychological phenomena) is also the tool of investigation. Like the Flatlanders in Edwin Abbot's famous short story (1884), we may be led to believe that the parsimony offered by our low-dimensional theories reflects the reality of a much higher-dimensional problem. Here we contend that this "Flatland fallacy" leads us to seek out simplified explanations of complex phenomena, limiting our capacity as scientists to build and communicate useful models of human psychology. We suggest that this fallacy can be overcome through (a) the use of quantitative models, which force researchers to formalize their theories to overcome this fallacy, and (b) improved quantitative training, which can build new norms for conducting psychological research.

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The neuroeconomics of strategic interaction

Cited by 27 publications

References 43 publications

Your perspective and my benefit: multiple lesion models of self-other integration strategies during social bargaining

Your perspective and my benefit: multiple lesion models of self-other integration strategies during social bargaining

Neural Basis of Strategic Decision Making

The Flatland Fallacy: Moving Beyond Low Dimensional Thinking

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