Autonomic arousal tracks outcome salience not valence in monkeys making social decisions
B. M. Basile, J. A. Joiner, O. Dal Monte, N. A. Fagan, C. L. Karaskiewicz, D. R. Lucas, S. W. C. Chang, E. A. Murray
The paper measures autonomic pupil responses in monkeys during social decision-making and finds that pupil dilation tracks outcome salience rather than valence, contradicting the autonomic arousal hypothesis.
bioRxiv · Feb 17, 2020Animal Behavior & Cognition