Featured Publications
Oxytocin under opioid antagonism leads to supralinear enhancement of social attention
Dal Monte O, Piva M, Anderson KM, Tringides M, Holmes AJ, Chang SWC. Oxytocin under opioid antagonism leads to supralinear enhancement of social attention. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2017, 114: 5247-5252. PMID: 28461466, PMCID: PMC5441805, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1702725114.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSocial attentionMutual eye contactSocial cognitionReward receiptParticular social importanceEfficacy of oxytocinEye contactSocial dysfunctionOpioid antagonismSocial contextGaze interactionHuman brainEntire sessionOxytocinΚ-opioid receptor geneFacial regionOT geneAttentionCognitionSocial importanceStrong effectMonkeysOpioid systemSessionsContext
2023
The orbitofrontal cortex: A goal-directed cognitive map framework for social and non-social behaviors
Shi W, Meisner O, Blackmore S, Jadi M, Nandy A, Chang S. The orbitofrontal cortex: A goal-directed cognitive map framework for social and non-social behaviors. Neurobiology Of Learning And Memory 2023, 203: 107793. PMID: 37353191, PMCID: PMC10527225, DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2023.107793.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsOrbitofrontal cortexOFC functionCognitive mapsOFC neuronsNon-social domainCore brain areasNon-social behaviorsReward-based behaviorsValues-based behaviorSocial behaviorSocial contextBrain areasBehavioral contextSocial functionComplex representationSingle subjectCortexBehaviorTremendous knowledgeIntegrated viewContextTask spaceMAP frameworkRepresentationWide array
2016
Live interaction distinctively shapes social gaze dynamics in rhesus macaques
Dal Monte O, Piva M, Morris JA, Chang SW. Live interaction distinctively shapes social gaze dynamics in rhesus macaques. Journal Of Neurophysiology 2016, 116: 1626-1643. PMID: 27486105, PMCID: PMC5144716, DOI: 10.1152/jn.00442.2016.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMutual eye contactGaze dynamicsEye contactSocial cognitionProportion of fixationsInteractive social contextsPairs of monkeysFocal attentionSustained attentionLive interactionEye regionSeparable componentsFamiliar pairsMeaningful eventsSocial contextReal partnersDominant monkeysSame monkeysCognitionStatic imagesReal-time interactionAttentionMonkeys