Basolateral and central amygdala orchestrate how we learn whom to trust

Ronald Sladky; Federica Riva; Lisa Anna Rosenberger; Jack van Honk; Claus Lamm

doi:10.1038/s42003-021-02815-6

Communications Biology (Nov 2021)

Basolateral and central amygdala orchestrate how we learn whom to trust

Ronald Sladky,
Federica Riva,
Lisa Anna Rosenberger,
Jack van Honk,
Claus Lamm

Affiliations

Ronald Sladky: Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit, Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, University of Vienna
Federica Riva: Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit, Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, University of Vienna
Lisa Anna Rosenberger: Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit, Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, University of Vienna
Jack van Honk: Department of Psychology, Utrecht University
Claus Lamm: Social, Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Unit, Department of Cognition, Emotion, and Methods in Psychology, University of Vienna

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-021-02815-6
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Sladky & Riva et al. investigated how human allocation of trust depends on brain activity of the amygdala, a core brain structure for social cognition. They found dissociated activation between the amygdala and the nucleus accumbens, the former coding for trust assignation, and the latter coding for trust reciprocation.

Published in Communications Biology

ISSN: 2399-3642 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science: Biology (General)
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