Overall, this article highlights an important emerging role for the ventral anterior cingulate cortex in social decision-making. Whereas the subgenual anterior cingulate cortex appears to track prediction errors during social interactions, the perigenual anterior cingulate cortex may reflect one’s own estimates of future success. Moving forward, the application of computational frameworks of decision-making, close attention to neuroanatomy and learning models could provide a powerful way to understand disorders of social decision-making as well as how social decisions are made in everyday life.
