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Congrats to @BUamplab students Jess and Arti ( @_artigandhi) for this tour de force review on social reward and punishment neuroimaging findings in schizophrenia. First 1st-author paper for @JessicaLMow! A summary: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0149763420305236">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a... /1
Across 11 studies, a widely distributed network of brain regions were implicated in social reward and punishment. Common regions were mPFC, ACC, and insula. HUGE variability in methods, especially paradigms. Some thoughts: /2
1) By definition, social interactions are, well, interactive. To best examine neural processing of social reward and punishment, we should design tasks to include conditions that mimic realistic social interactions /3
2) we should use paradigms that balance experimental control with ecological validity to improve both the reliability and ecological validity of this line of work. /4
3) neutral stimuli may not be the best control condition (contrast), given between group diffs in the affective experience of supposedly "neutral" stimuli. Stimuli that are socially ambiguous may be more ecologically valid /FIN
