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| Type | Journal Article |
| Scope | Discipline-based scholarship |
| Title | A unified neural account of contextual and individual differences in altruism |
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| Item Subtype | Original Work |
| Refereed | Yes |
| Status | Published in final form |
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| Journal Title | eLife |
| Publisher | eLife Sciences Publications Ltd. |
| Geographical Reach | international |
| ISSN | 2050-084X |
| Volume | 12 |
| Page Range | e80667 |
| Date | 2023 |
| Abstract Text | Altruism is critical for cooperation and productivity in human societies but is known to vary strongly across contexts and individuals. The origin of these differences is largely unknown, but may in principle reflect variations in different neurocognitive processes that temporally unfold during altruistic decision making (ranging from initial perceptual processing via value computations to final integrative choice mechanisms). Here, we elucidate the neural origins of individual and contextual differences in altruism by examining altruistic choices in different inequality contexts with computational modeling and electroencephalography (EEG). Our results show that across all contexts and individuals, wealth distribution choices recruit a similar late decision process evident in model-predicted evidence accumulation signals over parietal regions. Contextual and individual differences in behavior related instead to initial processing of stimulus-locked inequality-related value information in centroparietal and centrofrontal sensors, as well as to gamma-band synchronization of these value-related signals with parietal response-locked evidence-accumulation signals. Our findings suggest separable biological bases for individual and contextual differences in altruism that relate to differences in the initial processing of choice-relevant information. |
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| Digital Object Identifier | 10.7554/elife.80667 |
| Other Identification Number | merlin-id:23812 |
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| Keywords | General immunology and microbiology, general biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, general medicine, general neuroscience |