PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Brian Silston AU - Toby Wise AU - Song Qi AU - Xin Sui AU - Peter Dayan AU - Dean Mobbs TI - Neural encoding of socially adjusted value during competitive and hazardous foraging AID - 10.1101/2020.09.11.294058 DP - 2020 Jan 01 TA - bioRxiv PG - 2020.09.11.294058 4099 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/09/12/2020.09.11.294058.short 4100 - http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2020/09/12/2020.09.11.294058.full AB - In group foraging organisms, optimizing the conflicting demands of competitive food loss and safety is critical. We demonstrate that humans select competition avoidant and risk diluting strategies during foraging depending on socially adjusted value. We formulate a mathematically grounded quantification of socially adjusted value in foraging environments and show using multivariate fMRI analyses that socially adjusted value is encoded by mid-cingulate and ventromedial prefrontal cortices, regions that integrate value and action signals.Competing Interest StatementThe authors have declared no competing interest.