dc.contributor.author | O'DOHERTY, JOHN | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-12-11T10:44:50Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-12-11T10:44:50Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014 | en |
dc.date.submitted | 2014 | en |
dc.identifier.citation | Cooper,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, 2502-2511 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 10473211 | en |
dc.identifier.other | Y | en |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2262/72425 | |
dc.description | PUBLISHED | en |
dc.description.abstract | Romantic 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 beliefs | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | This 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 JOD | en |
dc.format.extent | 2502-2511 | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Cerebral Cortex | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 24 | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 9 | en |
dc.rights | Y | en |
dc.subject | RMPFC | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | RMPFC | en |
dc.title | The role of the posterior temporal and medial prefrontal cortices in mediating learning from romantic interest and rejection | en |
dc.type | Journal Article | en |
dc.type.supercollection | scholarly_publications | en |
dc.type.supercollection | refereed_publications | en |
dc.identifier.peoplefinderurl | http://people.tcd.ie/odoherjp | en |
dc.identifier.rssinternalid | 98318 | en |
dc.identifier.doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bht102 | en |
dc.rights.ecaccessrights | openAccess | |