Roger, Do you have access to the PDF? Can you send it to me? Thanks.
Merle On Fri, Mar 4, 2016 at 7:50 AM, Roger Critchlow <[email protected]> wrote: > In today's issue of Science, > http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6277/1074 > > Goal-directed human behaviors are driven by motives. Motives are, however, > purely mental constructs that are not directly observable. Here, we show > that the brain’s functional network architecture captures information that > predicts different motives behind the same altruistic act with high > accuracy. In contrast, mere activity in these regions contains no > information about motives. Empathy-based altruism is primarily > characterized by a positive connectivity from the anterior cingulate cortex > (ACC) to the anterior insula (AI), whereas reciprocity-based altruism > additionally invokes strong positive connectivity from the AI to the ACC > and even stronger positive connectivity from the AI to the ventral > striatum. Moreover, predominantly selfish individuals show distinct > functional architectures compared to altruists, and they only increase > altruistic behavior in response to empathy inductions, but not reciprocity > inductions. > > Evidently based on subject self reporting "with high accuracy". > > -- rec -- > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > -- Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D. President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA [email protected] mobile: (303) 859-5609 skype: merlelefkoff
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