Luo, Q;
Ma, Y;
Bhatt, MA;
Montague, PR;
Feng, J;
(2017)
The Functional Architecture of the Brain Underlies Strategic Deception in Impression Management.
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
, 11
, Article 513. 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00513.
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Abstract
Impression management, as one of the most essential skills of social function, impacts one’s survival and success in human societies. However, the neural architecture underpinning this social skill remains poorly understood. By employing a two-person bargaining game, we exposed three strategies involving distinct cognitive processes for social impression management with different levels of strategic deception. We utilized a novel adaptation of Granger causality accounting for signal-dependent noise (SDN), which captured the directional connectivity underlying the impression management during the bargaining game. We found that the sophisticated strategists engaged stronger directional connectivity from both dorsal anterior cingulate cortex and retrosplenial cortex to rostral prefrontal cortex, and the strengths of these directional influences were associated with higher level of deception during the game. Using the directional connectivity as a neural signature, we identified the strategic deception with 80% accuracy by a machine-learning classifier. These results suggest that different social strategies are supported by distinct patterns of directional connectivity among key brain regions for social cognition.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | The Functional Architecture of the Brain Underlies Strategic Deception in Impression Management |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3389/fnhum.2017.00513 |
| Publisher version: | http://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2017.00513 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2017 Luo, Ma, Bhatt, Montague and Feng. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
| Keywords: | impression management, economic games, signal-dependent noise, directional connectivity, support vector machine |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > UCL Queen Square Institute of Neurology |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10041285 |
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