title: Reliance on functional resting-state network for stable task control predicts behavioral tendency for cooperation.
abstract: Humans display individual variability in cooperative behavior. While an ever-growing body of research has investigated the neural correlates of task-specific cooperation, the mechanisms by which situation-independent, stable differences in cooperation render behavior consistent across a wide range of situations remain elusive. Addressing this issue, we show that the individual tendency to behave in a prosocial or individualistic manner can be predicted from the functional resting-state connectome. More specifically, connections of the cinguloopercular network which supports goal-directed behavior encode cooperative tendency. Effects of virtual lesions to this network on the efficacy of information exchange throughout the brain corroborate our findings. These results shed light on the neural mechanisms underlying individualists' and prosocials' habitual social decisions by showing that reliance on the cinguloopercular task-control network predicts stable cooperative behavior. Based on this evidence, we provide a unifying framework for the interpretation of functional imaging and behavioral studies of cooperative behavior.
authors.affiliation: Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Department of Cognitive Psychology II, Germany. Electronic address: Hahn@psych.uni-frankfurt.de.
authors.forename: Tim
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hahn
authors.affiliation: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Research Center of Marketing and Consumer Science, Belgium.
authors.forename: Karolien
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Notebaert
authors.affiliation: Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Department of Cognitive Psychology II, Germany.
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Anderl
authors.affiliation: University of Wuerzburg, Department of Psychology, Würzburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Philipp
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Reicherts
authors.affiliation: University of Wuerzburg, Department of Psychology, Würzburg, Germany.
authors.forename: Matthias
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wieser
authors.affiliation: University of Wuerzburg, Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Germany.
authors.forename: Juliane
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kopf
authors.affiliation: University of Wuerzburg, Department of Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Germany.
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Reif
authors.affiliation: Junior Research Group Evolution of Cooperation and Prosocial Behaviour, Courant Research Centre Evolution of Social Behaviour, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Katrin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Fehl
authors.affiliation: Junior Research Group Evolution of Cooperation and Prosocial Behaviour, Courant Research Centre Evolution of Social Behaviour, University of Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
authors.forename: Dirk
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Semmann
authors.affiliation: Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, Department of Cognitive Psychology II, Germany.
authors.forename: Sabine
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Windmann
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007206:Individuality; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology; D011594:Psychometrics; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Cooperative behavior; Cooperative phenotype; Resting-state fMRI; Social value orientation; Task-control network; Virtual lesion analysis