Social risky decision-making reveals gender differences in the TPJ: A hyperscanning study using functional near-infrared spectroscopy

Autor(en)

Mingming Zhang, Tao Liu, Matthew Pelowski, Huibin Jia, Dongchuan Yu

Abstrakt

Previous neuroscience studies have investigated neural correlates of risky decision-making in a single-brain frame during pseudo social (predominantly non face-to-face) contexts. To fully understand the risky decision- making behavior in more natural social interactions, the present study employed a functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) hyperscanning technique to simultaneously measure pairs of participants' fronto-temporal activations in a face-to-face gambling card-game. The intra-brain results revealed that both those who identified as males and as females showed higher activations in their mPFC and in the inferior parts of the frontopolar area, as well as in the tempo-parietal junction (TPJ) in cases involving higher versus lower risk. This is consistent with previous findings suggesting importance of the mentalizing network in decision tasks. The fNIRS results of inter- brain neural synchronization (INS) also revealed that males and females showed increased inter-brain coherence in the mPFC and dlPFC. Females, however, uniquely showed increased inter-brain coherence in the left TPJ. This INS result suggests that males may primarily depend on non-social cognitive ability to make a risky decision in a social interaction, while females may use both social and non-social cognitive abilities. The implications are also discussed for general topics of human interaction and two-person neuroscience.

Organisation(en)

Institut für Psychologie der Kognition, Emotion und Methoden

Externe Organisation(en)

Southeast University, Zhejiang University (ZJU)

Journal

Brain and Cognition

Band

119

Seiten

54-63

Anzahl der Seiten

10

ISSN

0278-2626

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandc.2017.08.008

Publikationsdatum

2017

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

501021 Sozialpsychologie, 501014 Neuropsychologie

Schlagwörter

ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete

Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), Cognitive Neuroscience

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