Neural mechanisms mediating degrees of strategic uncertainty

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• dc.contributor.author Nagel, Rosemarie
• dc.contributor.author Brovelli, Andrea
• dc.contributor.author Heinemann, Frank
• dc.contributor.author Coricelli, Giorgio
• dc.date.accessioned 2020-06-02T08:59:37Z
• dc.date.available 2020-06-02T08:59:37Z
• dc.date.issued 2018
• dc.description.abstract In social interactions, strategic uncertainty arises when the outcome of one’s choice depends on the choices of others. An important question is whether strategic uncertainty can be resolved by assessing subjective probabilities to the counterparts’ behavior, as if playing against nature, and thus transforming the strategic interaction into a risky (individual) situation. By means of functional magnetic resonance imaging with human participants we tested the hypothesis that choices under strategic uncertainty are supported by the neural circuits mediating choices under individual risk and deliberation in social settings (i.e. strategic thinking). Participants were confronted with risky lotteries and two types of coordination games requiring different degrees of strategic thinking of the kind ‘I think that you think that I think etc.’ We found that the brain network mediating risk during lotteries (anterior insula, dorsomedial prefrontal cortex and parietal cortex) is also engaged in the processing of strategic uncertainty in games. In social settings, activity in this network is modulated by the level of strategic thinking that is reflected in the activity of the dorsomedial and dorsolateral prefrontal cortex. These results suggest that strategic uncertainty is resolved by the interplay between the neural circuits mediating risk and higher order beliefs (i.e. beliefs about others’ beliefs).en
• dc.description.sponsorship This work was supported by the European Research Council (ERC Consolidator Grant 617629 to G.C.); Human Frontier Science Program Organization (for life science and physics) to G.C., A.B. and R.N.; Dirección General de Investigación Cientifíca y Técnica (ECO2011-25295) (ECO2008-01768), Barcelona Graduate School of Economics and the Generalitat de Catalunya to R.N. A.B. was also supported by the Projet Exploratoire Premier Soutien (PEPS) Bio-Maths-Info (BMI) of the CNRS–INRIA–INSERM.
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• dc.identifier.citation Nagel R, Brovelli A, Heinemann F, Coricelli G. Neural mechanisms mediating degrees of strategic uncertainty. Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2018 Jan;13(1):52-62. DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsx131
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/scan/nsx131
• dc.identifier.issn 1749-5016
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/44871
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Oxford University Press
• dc.relation.ispartof Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience. 2018 Jan;13(1):52-62
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/617629
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/ECO2011-25295
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/3PN/ECO2008-01768
• dc.rights This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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• dc.subject.keyword Strategic uncertaintyen
• dc.subject.keyword Risken
• dc.subject.keyword Strategic thinkingen
• dc.subject.keyword Cognitive hierarchyen
• dc.subject.keyword Game theoryen
• dc.subject.keyword Neuroimagingen
• dc.subject.keyword Neuroeconomicsen
• dc.title Neural mechanisms mediating degrees of strategic uncertaintyen
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