Our attention is strongly influenced by reward learning. Stimuli previously associated with monetary reward have been shown to automatically capture attention in both behavioral and neurophysiological studies. Stimuli previously associated with positive social feedback similarly capture attention; however, it is unknown whether such social facilitation of attention relies on similar or dissociable neural systems. Here, we used the value-driven attentional capture paradigm in an fMRI study to identify the neural correlates of attention to stimuli previously associated with social reward. The results reveal learning-dependent priority signals in the contralateral visual cortex, posterior parietal cortex, and caudate tail, similar to studies using monetary reward. An additional priority signal was consistently evident in the right middle frontal gyrus (MFG). Our findings support the notion of a common neural mechanism for directing attention on the basis of selection history that generalizes across different types of reward.

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先前与社交奖励相关的刺激引起的注意捕获的神经相关性。

我们的注意力受到奖励学习的强烈影响。在行为和神经生理学研究中，先前与金钱奖励相关的刺激已被证明能够自动引起注意。先前与积极的社会反馈相关的刺激同样引起了关注；然而，这种社会化的注意力促进是否依赖于相似或可分离的神经系统尚不清楚。在这里，我们在一项功能磁共振成像研究中使用了价值驱动的注意力捕获范例，以识别注意力与先前与社会奖励相关的刺激的神经相关性。结果揭示了对侧视觉皮层，顶叶后皮质和尾状尾巴中依赖学习的优先信号，类似于使用金钱奖励的研究。右中额回（MFG）始终可见一个额外的优先信号。我们的发现支持基于选择历史的通用神经机制的概念，该选择机制可以概括不同类型的奖励。