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dc.contributor.authorO'DOHERTY, JOHNen
dc.date.accessioned2014-12-11T10:44:50Z
dc.date.available2014-12-11T10:44:50Z
dc.date.issued2014en
dc.date.submitted2014en
dc.identifier.citationCooper,Jeffrey C. J.C., Dunne,Simon S., Furey,Teresa T., O'Doherty,John P. J.P., The role of the posterior temporal and medial prefrontal cortices in mediating learning from romantic interest and rejection, Cerebral Cortex, 24, 9, 2014, 2502-2511en
dc.identifier.issn10473211en
dc.identifier.otherYen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2262/72425
dc.descriptionPUBLISHEDen
dc.description.abstractRomantic interest or rejection can be powerful incentives not merely for their emotional impact, but for their potential to transform, in a single interaction, what we think we know about another person – or ourselves. Little is known, though, about how the brain computes expectations for, and learns from, real-world romantic signals. In a novel “speed-dating” paradigm, we had participants meet potential romantic partners in a series of five-minute “dates,” and decide whether they would be interested in seeing each partner again. Afterwards, participants were scanned with FMRI while they were told, for the first time, whether that partner was interested in them or rejected them. Expressions of interest and rejection activated regions previously associated with “mentalizing,” including the posterior superior temporal sulcus (pSTS) and rostromedial prefrontal cortex (RMPFC); while pSTS responded to differences from the participant’s own decision, RMPFC responded to prediction errors from a reinforcement learning model of personal desirability. Responses in affective regions were also highly sensitive to participants’ expectations. Far from being inscrutable, then, responses to romantic expressions seem to involve a quantitative learning process, rooted in distinct sources of expectations, and encoded in neural networks that process both affective value and social beliefsen
dc.description.sponsorshipThis work was supported by the an Irish Research Council on Science, Engineering, and Technology Fellowship to JC, a Wellcome Trust project grant (WT087388AIA), and a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to JODen
dc.format.extent2502-2511en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.relation.ispartofseriesCerebral Cortexen
dc.relation.ispartofseries24en
dc.relation.ispartofseries9en
dc.rightsYen
dc.subjectRMPFCen
dc.subject.lcshRMPFCen
dc.titleThe role of the posterior temporal and medial prefrontal cortices in mediating learning from romantic interest and rejectionen
dc.typeJournal Articleen
dc.type.supercollectionscholarly_publicationsen
dc.type.supercollectionrefereed_publicationsen
dc.identifier.peoplefinderurlhttp://people.tcd.ie/odoherjpen
dc.identifier.rssinternalid98318en
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bht102en
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