INCYT   25562
INSTITUTO DE NEUROCIENCIA COGNITIVA Y TRASLACIONAL
Unidad Ejecutora - UE
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
Do you have a strategy? Multimodal brain signatures of social bargaining in neurodegeneration and frontal lesion
Autor/es:
MELLONI, M., TORRALVA, T., BILLEKE, P., BAEZ, S., HESSE, E., LA FUENTE, L., BIRBA, A., GARCÍA-CORDERO, I. GARCÍA, A. M., SEDEÑO, L., MANES, F. & IBÁÑEZ, A.
Lugar:
Munich
Reunión:
Conferencia; 10th International Conference on Frontotemporal Dementias; 2016
Institución organizadora:
International Society for Frontotemporal Dementias
Resumen:
Recursive social decision making requires the use of flexible, context-sensitive long-term strategies for negotiation. To succeed in social bargaining, participants? own perspectives must be dynamically integrated with those of interactors to maximize self-benefits and adapt to the other?s preferences, respectively. This is a pre-requisite to develop a successful long-term self-other integration strategy (SOIS). While such form of strategic interaction is critical to social decision making, little is known about its neurocognitive correlates. To bridge this gap, we analyzed social bargaining behavior in relation to its structural neural correlates, ongoing brain dynamics (oscillations and related source space), and functional connectivity signatures in healthy subjects and patients offering contrastive lesion models of neurodegeneration and focal stroke: behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), Alzheimer?s disease (AD), and frontal lesions (FL). All groups showed preserved basic bargaining indexes. However, impaired SOIS was found in bvFTD and FL patients, suggesting that social bargaining critically depends on the integrity of prefrontal regions. Also, associations between behavioral performance and data from voxel-based morphometry (VBM) and voxel-based lesion-symptom mapping (VLSM) revealed a critical role of prefrontal regions in value integration and strategic decisions for SOIS. Furthermore, as shown by measures of brain dynamics and related sources during the task, SOIS was predicted by anticipatory activity (alpha/beta oscillations with sources in fronto-temporal regions) associated with expectations about others? decisions. This pattern was reduced in all clinical groups, with greater impairments for bvFTD and FL than AD. Finally, fMRI connectivity analysis highlighted a fronto-temporo-parietal network involved in successful SOIS, with selective compromise of long-distance connections in frontal disorders (bvFTD and FL). In sum, this work provides unprecedented evidence of convergent behavioral and neurocognitive signatures of strategic social bargaining in different lesion models. Our findings offer new insights into the critical roles of frontal hubs and associated temporo-parietal networks for strategic social negotiation.