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Nature Neuroscience 10, 137 - 138 (2007)
doi:10.1038/nn0207-137
For goodness' sake
P Read Montague1 & Pearl H Chiu1
- The authors are in the Computational Psychiatry Unit, Department of Neuroscience, Department of Psychiatry (PRM), Baylor College of Medicine, 1 Baylor Plaza, Houston, Texas 77030, USA. e-mail: rmontague@hnl.bcm.tmc.edu
Abstract
Humans engage in complex social interactions, including altruism. A study in this issue finds that watching a computer perform an altruistic act, earning money for charity, is sufficient to activate a brain region that has been implicated in the evaluation of others' motives and goals, suggesting that this area may be involved in detecting agency in other creatures.
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RESEARCH
Altruism is associated with an increased neural response to agencyNature Neuroscience Brief Communication (01 Feb 2007)
