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  • Primate Cognition
  • Neurochemistry

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  • Dopamine (DA) is a neurotransmitter implicated in various brain functions, with recent studies suggesting roles in social behavior in rodents.
  • Understanding dopamine's role in social information processing in primates is limited.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate prefrontal cortical (PFC) activities during social versus nonsocial visual stimulus processing in primates.
  • To elucidate the involvement of dopamine transmission in the PFC during social cognition.

Main Methods:

  • Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) was employed in Japanese macaques to measure PFC activity.
  • Pharmacological manipulations targeting dopamine (DA) transmission were performed.
  • Monkeys were exposed to both social and nonsocial visual stimuli while their brain activity was monitored.

Main Results:

  • Distinct patterns of oxygenated and deoxygenated hemoglobin (oxy-Hb and deoxy-Hb) changes and functional connectivity were observed in the PFC for social versus nonsocial stimuli.
  • Administration of D1 and D2 receptor antagonists impacted Hb changes for social stimuli.
  • D1 receptor antagonists, but not D2, affected Hb changes associated with nonsocial stimuli.

Conclusions:

  • Mesocortical DA transmission in the PFC is vital for social information processing in nonhuman primates, involving both D1 and D2 receptor activation.
  • D1 and D2 receptor signaling in the PFC differentially mediate the processing of social and nonsocial information.