title: Medial Prefrontal Cortex Updates Its Status.
abstract: How does the brain infer social status? A new study by Kumaran et al. (2016) identifies a region of the medial prefrontal cortex that, in concert with the amygdala and hippocampus, subserves updating of probabilistic beliefs about the status of individuals in a social hierarchy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
authors.forename: Mina
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Cikara
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Electronic address: gershman@fas.harvard.edu.
authors.forename: Samuel J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Gershman
mesh_terms: D000679:Amygdala; D001921:Brain; D006624:Hippocampus; D006801:Humans; D017397:Prefrontal Cortex
keywords: Bayesian models; amygdala; hippocampus; social status