Learning to Simulate Others' Decisions
Learning to Simulate Others' Decisions
复制标题
DOI：
10.1016/j.neuron.2012.04.030
复制
发表时间：
2012-06-21
期刊：
影响因子：
16.2
通讯作者：
Nakahara, Hiroyuki
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Suzuki, Shinsuke;Harasawa, Norihiro;Nakahara, Hiroyuki
社会认知的一个基本挑战是人类如何学习他人的价值观来预测他们的决策行为。这种形式的学习通常被认为需要通过直接招募自己的评估过程来模拟对方的过程来模拟对方的过程。然而，模拟学习的认知和神经机制尚不清楚。使用行为，建模和功能磁共振成像，我们表明模拟涉及两个分层排列的学习信号。腹内侧前额叶皮层处理的模拟他人奖励预测误差介导了直接招募模拟，对自我和模拟他人的评价是相同的。然而，直接招募对学习来说是不够的，而且还需要观察他人的选择，以产生在背内侧/背外侧前额皮质中编码的模拟他人的动作预测错误。这些发现表明，模拟使用一个核心的前额叶回路来模拟他人的评估以产生预测，并使用一个辅助回路来跟踪行为变化以改进预测。
A fundamental challenge in social cognition is how humans learn another person's values to predict their decision-making behavior. This form of learning is often assumed to require simulation of the other by direct recruitment of one's own valuation process to model the other's process. However, the cognitive and neural mechanism of simulation learning is not known. Using behavior, modeling, and fMRI, we show that simulation involves two learning signals in a hierarchical arrangement. A simulated-other's reward prediction error processed in ventromedial prefrontal cortex mediated simulation by direct recruitment, being identical for valuation of the self and simulated-other. However, direct recruitment was insufficient for learning, and also required observation of the other's choices to generate a simulated-other's action prediction error encoded in dorsomedial/dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. These findings show that simulation uses a core prefrontal circuit for modeling the other's valuation to generate prediction and an adjunct circuit for tracking behavioral variation to refine prediction.