For love or money: a common neural currency for social and monetary reward.
Two papers in the current issue of Neuron (Izuma et al. and Zink et al.) report that activity in specific regions of the brain, especially the striatum, reflects a common signal of reward in both the economic (e.g., money) and social (e.g., praise and status) domains.
Saxe
Rebecca
R
Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Haushofer
Johannes
J
D001931:Brain Mapping; D006801:Humans; D012201:Reward; D012919:Social Behavior