A functional imaging study of cooperation in two-person reciprocal exchange.

@article{citeulike:546174, abstract = {Cooperation between individuals requires the ability to infer each other's mental states to form shared expectations over mutual gains and make cooperative choices that realize these gains. From evidence that the ability for mental state attribution involves the use of prefrontal cortex, we hypothesize that this area is involved in integrating theory-of-mind processing with cooperative actions. We report data from a functional MRI experiment designed to test this hypothesis. Subjects in a scanner played standard two-person "trust and reciprocity" games with both human and computer counterparts for cash rewards. Behavioral data shows that seven subjects consistently attempted cooperation with their human counterpart. Within this group prefrontal regions are more active when subjects are playing a human than when they are playing a computer following a fixed (and known) probabilistic strategy. Within the group of five noncooperators, there are no significant differences in prefrontal activation between computer and human conditions.}, address = {Cognition and Neuroimaging Laboratories, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. kmccabe@gmu.edu}, author = {McCabe, K. and Houser, D. and Ryan, L. and Smith, V. and Trouard, T. }, citeulike-article-id = {546174}, doi = {10.1073/pnas.211415698}, issn = {0027-8424}, journal = {Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A}, keywords = {cooperation, fmri, game-theory, neuroeconomics}, month = {September}, number = {20}, pages = {11832--11835}, posted-at = {2006-03-10 14:44:56}, priority = {3}, title = {A functional imaging study of cooperation in two-person reciprocal exchange.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.211415698}, volume = {98}, year = {2001} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:546174 L3 - citeulike-article-id:546174 TI - A functional imaging study of cooperation in two-person reciprocal exchange. JF - Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A VL - 98 IS - 20 SP - 11832 EP - 11835 AD - Cognition and Neuroimaging Laboratories, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA. kmccabe@gmu.edu SN - 0027-8424 N2 - Cooperation between individuals requires the ability to infer each other's mental states to form shared expectations over mutual gains and make cooperative choices that realize these gains. From evidence that the ability for mental state attribution involves the use of prefrontal cortex, we hypothesize that this area is involved in integrating theory-of-mind processing with cooperative actions. We report data from a functional MRI experiment designed to test this hypothesis. Subjects in a scanner played standard two-person "trust and reciprocity" games with both human and computer counterparts for cash rewards. Behavioral data shows that seven subjects consistently attempted cooperation with their human counterpart. Within this group prefrontal regions are more active when subjects are playing a human than when they are playing a computer following a fixed (and known) probabilistic strategy. Within the group of five noncooperators, there are no significant differences in prefrontal activation between computer and human conditions. KW - cooperation KW - fmri KW - game-theory KW - neuroeconomics AU - McCabe, K AU - Houser, D AU - Ryan, L AU - Smith, V AU - Trouard, T PY - 2001/09/25/ UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.211415698 ER -