Fig. 3: Statistical maps of brain regions tracking the social dominance status of the opponent SDS(t) (bottom) and the social prediction error SPE(t) (top) at the outcome of the competition.
From: Regulation of social hierarchy learning by serotonin transporter availability
The graph on the left represents the evolution of the SDS(t) for a participant over the experiment. Positive encoding of the social prediction error SPE(t) was revealed in the bilateral VS, anterior mPFC, bilateral superior frontal gyrus, and posterior middle cingulate gyrus. Tracking SDS(t) engages the bilateral VS and the anterior mPFC. All statistical analyses were performed at a p < 0.05 cluster level corrected for Family Wise Error at the whole-brain level, with an initial cluster forming threshold of p < 0.001 uncorrected. VS ventral striatum, amPFC anterior medial prefrontal cortex.
