Biological mechanisms for observational learning

I Carcea, RC Froemke - Current opinion in neurobiology, 2019 - Elsevier
Highlights•Many animal species can learn by observing the behavior of a
conspecific.•Recent studies are investigating the neural circuits for observational learning.• …

Dedicated representation of others in the macaque frontal cortex: from action monitoring and prediction to outcome evaluation

L Ferrucci, S Nougaret, R Falcone, R Cirillo… - Cerebral …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Social neurophysiology has increasingly addressed how several aspects of self and other
are distinctly represented in the brain. In social interactions, the self–other distinction is …

The feedback‐related negativity indexes prediction error in active but not observational learning

R Burnside, AG Fischer, M Ullsperger - Psychophysiology, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Reinforcement learning (RL) theory states that learning is driven by prediction errors (PEs)—
the discrepancy between the predicted and actual outcome of an action. When participants …

Macaque monkeys learn by observation in the ghost display condition in the object-in-place task with differential reward to the observer

L Ferrucci, S Nougaret, A Genovesio - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Observational learning has been investigated in monkeys mainly using conspecifics or
humans as models to observe. Some studies attempted to clarify the social agent's role and …

Observational threat learning influences costly avoidance behaviour in healthy humans

M Mueller, O Cohen, T Shechner, J Haaker - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Avoidance is an essential behaviour for ensuring safety in uncertain and dangerous
environments. One way to learn what is dangerous and must be avoided is through …

A naturalistic environment to study visual cognition in unrestrained monkeys

G Jacob, H Katti, T Cherian, J Das, KA Zhivago… - elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Macaque monkeys are widely used to study vision. In the traditional approach, monkeys are
brought into a lab to perform visual tasks while they are restrained to obtain stable eye …

Social modulation of cognition: Lessons from rhesus macaques relevant to education

E Monfardini, AJ Reynaud, J Prado… - … & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2017 - Elsevier
Any animal, human or non-human, lives in a world where there are others like itself.
Individuals' behaviors are thus inevitably influenced by others, and cognition is no …

[HTML][HTML] Role of the social actor during social interaction and learning in human-monkey paradigms

S Nougaret, L Ferrucci, A Genovesio - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral …, 2019 - Elsevier
The social interactions between primates is drawn by their ability to predict others'
behaviours, to learn from others' actions and to represent others' intentions. It allows them to …

Role of anterior cingulate cortex in instrumental learning: blockade of dopamine D1 receptors suppresses overt but not covert learning

M Aly-Mahmoud, P Carlier, SA Salam… - Frontiers in Behavioral …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
HIGHLIGHTS Blockade of dopamine D1 receptors in ACC suppressed instrumental learning
when overt responding was required. Covert learning through observation was not impaired …

Towards an understanding of the neural dynamics of intentional learning: considering the timescale

H Ruge, U Wolfensteller - NeuroImage, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Recently, Hampshire et al.(2016) published a paper in NeuroImage investigating
the involvement of frontal networks in two types of 'intentional learning'. This included the …