Know Your Place: Neural Processing of Social Hierarchy in Humans Export

@article{citeulike:3200225, abstract = {Summary Social hierarchies guide behavior in many species, including humans, where status also has an enormous impact on motivation and health. However, little is known about the underlying neural representation of social hierarchies in humans. In the present study, we identify dissociable neural responses to perceived social rank using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in an interactive, simulated social context. In both stable and unstable social hierarchies, viewing a superior individual differentially engaged perceptual-attentional, saliency, and cognitive systems, notably dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. In the unstable hierarchy setting, additional regions related to emotional processing (amygdala), social cognition (medial prefrontal cortex), and behavioral readiness were recruited. Furthermore, social hierarchical consequences of performance were neurally dissociable and of comparable salience to monetary reward, providing a neural basis for the high motivational value of status. Our results identify neural mechanisms that may mediate the enormous influence of social status on human behavior and health.}, author = {Zink, Caroline F. and Tong, Yunxia and Chen, Qiang and Bassett, Danielle S. and Stein, Jason L. and Meyer-Lindenberg, Andreas}, citeulike-article-id = {3200225}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2008.01.025}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0896627308001128}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18439411}, citeulike-linkout-3 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=18439411}, citeulike-linkout-4 = {http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6WSS-4SBRRK2-G/2/b68520873e784a1954492b69154e5e0a}, day = {24}, doi = {10.1016/j.neuron.2008.01.025}, journal = {Neuron}, keywords = {reward, social}, month = {April}, number = {2}, pages = {273--283}, posted-at = {2008-09-26 06:31:35}, priority = {3}, title = {Know Your Place: Neural Processing of Social Hierarchy in Humans}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2008.01.025}, volume = {58}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3200225 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3200225 N2 - Summary Social hierarchies guide behavior in many species, including humans, where status also has an enormous impact on motivation and health. However, little is known about the underlying neural representation of social hierarchies in humans. In the present study, we identify dissociable neural responses to perceived social rank using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in an interactive, simulated social context. In both stable and unstable social hierarchies, viewing a superior individual differentially engaged perceptual-attentional, saliency, and cognitive systems, notably dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. In the unstable hierarchy setting, additional regions related to emotional processing (amygdala), social cognition (medial prefrontal cortex), and behavioral readiness were recruited. Furthermore, social hierarchical consequences of performance were neurally dissociable and of comparable salience to monetary reward, providing a neural basis for the high motivational value of status. Our results identify neural mechanisms that may mediate the enormous influence of social status on human behavior and health. IS - 2 JF - Neuron EP - 283 TI - Know Your Place: Neural Processing of Social Hierarchy in Humans VL - 58 SP - 273 KW - reward KW - social AU - Zink, Caroline AU - Tong, Yunxia AU - Chen, Qiang AU - Bassett, Danielle AU - Stein, Jason AU - Meyer-Lindenberg, Andreas PY - 2008/04/24/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.neuron.2008.01.025 ER -