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2026
Nandy G, Meisner OC, Shi W, Nandy AS*, Jadi MP*, Chang SWC* (2026)
Division of vocal signaling in cooperating marmoset dyads
bioRxiv, doi.org/10.64898/2026.10.15.758668. (*, co-senior authors) 
Qi G, Dal Monte O, Fan S, Chang SWC (2026)
Compositionality of social gaze in the prefrontal-amygdala circuits
Nature Communications, 17, 7478.
Shi W, Meisner OC, Jadi MP*, Chang SWC*, Nandy AS* (2026)
Canonical decision computations underlie behavioral and neural signatures of cooperation in primates
Neuron, 114, 2657–2667.e5. (*, co-senior authors)
- *Preview: Stuphorn V (2026). Decide when to cooperate. Neuron, 114, 2498–2499.
Xing F*, Fan S*, Dal Monte O, Jadi MP**, Chang SWC**, Nandy AS** (2026)
Causal dynamics of social gaze in primate prefrontal-amygdala networks revealed by dynamic Bayesian modeling
Nature Communications, 17, 8306. (*, co-first authors; **, co-senior authors)
Chang SWC and Lockwood PL (2026)
Central questions for social neuroscience research
Journal of Neuroscience, 46, e0123262026.
Special Collection: Central Questions for Social Neuroscience Research
Zhang M, Rigney N, Chang SWC, Hong W (2026)
The anterior cingulate cortex and prosocial behavior toward others in negative state
Journal of Neuroscience, 46, e1105252025.
Special Collection: Central Questions for Social Neuroscience Research
Jiang M, Chang SWC, Hong W (2026)
Cooperation: behavioral manifestations and neural mechanisms
Current Opinion in Neurobiology, 97, 103177.
Shi W, Meisner OC, Jadi MP, Nandy AS, Chang SWC (2026)
Comparative game theory: Bringing ethology back into decision neuroscience
In: Smith DV, Lockwood PL, Fareri DS (Eds.), Neuroeconomics: Core Topics and Current Directions. Springer, pp. 483–502. Chapter Book
Masthay JC, Kwan AC, Chang SWC (2026)
Psychedelic studies in nonhuman primates: Past and future
Molecular Psychiatry, 31, 514–525.
2025
Meisner OC†, Shi W†, Nair A, Nandy G, Jadi MP*, Nandy AS*, Chang SWC* (2025)
Diverse and flexible strategies enable successful cooperation in marmoset dyads
Current Biology, 35, 4509–4521. (†, co-first authors; *, co-senior authors)
- *Dispatch: Miller CT (2025). Animal cognition: Adaptive cooperation strategies in marmoset monkeys. Current Biology, 35, R886–R887.
Meisner OC, Dal Monte O, Fagan NA, Nandy AS, Chang SWC (2025)
Oxytocin in the amygdala sustains prosocial behavior via state-dependent amygdala-prefrontal modulation
Journal of Neuroscience, 45, e2416242025.
Special Collection: Central Questions for Social Neuroscience Research
Zoh Y, Yu H, Contreras-Huerta LS, Prosser AMB, Apps MAJ, Sinnott-Armstrong W, Chang SWC, Crockett MJ (2025)
Instrumental harm and impartial beneficence distinctively frame cognitive representations of moral decision problems
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 154, 3217–3232.
Dal Monte O*, Gangopadhyay P*, Putnam PT*, Chang SWC (2025)
Oxytocin and opioid antagonists: A dual approach to improving social behavior
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1549, 55–71. (*, equal contributions)
Xing F, Sheffield AG, Jadi MP*, Chang SWC*, Nandy AS* (2025)
Dynamic modulation of social gaze by sex and familiarity in marmoset dyads
eLife, 14, RP105034. (*, co-senior authors)
Qi G, Chang SWC (2025; book 2026)
Social behavior in primates and its neural correlates
The Evolution of Nervous Systems of Nonhuman Primates (Vol. 3), edited by Elisabeth A. Murray and Steven P. Wise. In Kaas J and Herculano-Houzel S (Eds.), Evolution of the Nervous System (3rd Edition), Elsevier. ISBN: 9780443273803. DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-443-27380-3.00002-6. Chapter Book
Li SW*, Kietzman HW*, Taylor JR, Chang SWC (2025)
The evolving landscape of social neuroscience and its implications for psychiatry
Biological Psychiatry, 97, 936–938. (*, co-first authors)
Special Issue: Social Homeostasis: A New Framework for Preventing and Treating Psychiatric Conditions
2024
Basso M, Batista A, Chang S, Gothard K, Miller C, Parker K, Zimmermann J (2024)
The future of nonhuman primate neuroscience: peril or possibilities?
Journal of Neuroscience, 44, e1458242024.
Suthaharan P*, Thompson SL*, Rossi-Goldthorpe RA, Rudebeck PH, Walton ME, Chakraborty S, Noonan MP, Mitchell AS, Costa VD, Murray EA, Mathys CD, Groman SM, Taylor JR, Corlett PR**, Chang SWC** (2024)
Lesions to the mediodorsal thalamus but not orbitofrontal cortex enhance volatility beliefs linked to paranoia
Cell Reports, 43, 114355. (*, co-first authors; **, co-senior authors)
Fan S*, Dal Monte O*, Nair A, Fagan NA, Chang SWC (2024)
Closed-loop microstimulations of the orbitofrontal cortex during real-life gaze interaction enhance dynamic social attention
Neuron, 112, 2631–2644.e6. (*, co-first authors)
- *Preview: Simon IV J, Rich EL (2024). Stimulating social interest: The translational value of basic investigations into frontal cortex function. Neuron, 112, 2461–2463.
Meisner OC, Shi W, Fagan NA, Greenwood J, Jadi MP*, Nandy AS*, Chang SWC* (2024)
Development of a Marmoset Apparatus for Automated Pulling (MarmoAAP) to study cooperative behaviors
eLife, 13, RP97088. (*, co-senior authors)
- *eLife Digest: Monkey teamwork. eLife.
2023
Putnam PT, Chu CJC, Fagan NA, Dal Monte O, Chang SWC (2023)
Dissociation of vicarious and experienced rewards by coupling frequency within the same neural pathway
Neuron, 111, 2513–2522.
- *Spotlight: Isoda M (2023). Decoding social rewards via brain’s inter-areal coordination frequency. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 27, 888–889.
Shi W, Meisner OC, Blackmore S, Jadi MP, Nandy AS, Chang SWC (2023)
The orbitofrontal cortex: a goal-directed cognitive map framework for social and non-social behaviors
Neurobiology of Learning and Memory, 203, 107793.
2022
Fortier AV*, Meisner OC*, Nair AR, Chang SWC (2022)
Prefrontal circuits guiding social preference: Implications in Autism Spectrum Disorder
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 141, 104803. (*, co-first authors)
Dal Monte O*, Fan S*, Fagan NA, Chu CJC, Zhou MB, Putnam PT, Nair AR, Chang SWC (2022)
Widespread implementations of interactive social gaze neurons in the primate prefrontal-amygdala networks
Neuron, 110, 2183–2197. (*, co-first authors)
- *Preview: Báez-Mendoza R & Williams ZM (2022). A stare like yours: Naturalistic social gaze interactions reveal robust neuronal representations. Neuron, 110, 2048–2049.
Putnam PT, Chang SWC (2022)
Oxytocin does not stand alone
Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci., 377, 20210047.
Introduction to P. Putnam and S. Chang (Eds.), Theme issue: Interplays between oxytocin and other neuromodulators in shaping complex social behaviours. (Entire theme issue: )
Putnam PT, Chang SWC (2022)
Interplay between the oxytocin and opioid systems in regulating social behavior
Philos. Trans. R. Soc. Lond. B Biol. Sci., 377, 20210050.
In P. Putnam and S. Chang (Eds.), Theme issue: Interplays between oxytocin and other neuromodulators in shaping complex social behaviours. (Entire theme issue: )
Meisner O, Nair A, Chang SWC (2022)
Amygdala connectivity and implications for social cognition and disorders
Handbook of Clinical Neurology, 187, 381–403. (The Temporal Lobe, Eds. Miceli, Bartolomeo, and Navarro; Elsevier)
Chin R, Chang SWC, Holmes AJ (2022)
Beyond cortex: the evolution of the human brain
Psychological Review, 130, 285–307.
Nair AR, Chang SWC (2022)
Social neuroscience: Staying bonded over oxytocin and endocannabinoids
Current Biology, 32, R228–R231.
Weinberg-Wolf H, Fagan NA, Dal Monte O, Chang SWC (2022)
Increasing central serotonin with 5-HTP disrupts the inhibition of social gaze in non-human primates
Journal of Neuroscience, 42, 670–681.
2021
Zoh Y, Chang SWC*, Crockett MJ* (2021)
The prefrontal cortex and (uniquely) human cooperation: a comparative perspective
Neuropsychopharmacology, 47, 119–133. (*, co-senior authors)
Fan S, Dal Monte O and Chang SWC (2021)
Levels of naturalism in social neuroscience research
iScience, 24, 102702.
Basile BM*, Joiner JA*, Dal Monte O, Fagan NA, Karaskiewicz CL, Lucas DR, Chang SWC**, Murray EA** (2021)
Autonomic arousal tracks outcome salience not valence in monkeys making social decisions
Behavioral Neuroscience, 135, 443–452. (*, co-first authors; **, co-senior authors)
Putnam PT and Chang SWC (2021)
Toward a holistic view of value and social processing in the amygdala: Insights from primate behavioral neurophysiology
Behavioural Brain Research, 411, 113356.
Ben-Haim MS, Dal Monte O, Fagan NA, Dunham Y, Hassin RR*, Chang SWC*, Santos LR* (2021)
Disentangling conscious awareness from non-conscious perception in rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta)
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 118, e2017543118. (*, co-senior authors)
- *Editors’ Choice: Vignieri S (2021). Evolutionary Cognition – I know what I saw. Science, 372, 251.
- *Dispatch: Hampton RR (2021). Animal consciousness: Should a new behavioral correlate in monkeys persuade agnostics? Current Biology, 31, R801–R803.
- *Outlook: Crump A and Birch J (2021). Separating conscious and unconscious perception in animals. Learning and Behavior, 49, 347–348.
- *Faculty Opinions recommendation
Putnam PT and Chang SWC (2021)
Social processing by the primate medial frontal cortex
International Review of Neurobiology, 158, 213–248.
In M. Roesch, L. Amarante, M. Laubach & A. Brockett (Eds.), What does Medial Frontal Cortex Signal during Behavior? Insights from Behavioral Neurophysiology.
Gangopadhyay P*, Chawla M*, Dal Monte O, Chang SWC (2021)
Prefrontal-amygdala circuits in social decision-making
Nature Neuroscience, 24, 5–18. (*, co-first authors)
2020
Lockwood PL, Apps MAJ*, Chang SWC* (2020)
Is there a ‘social brain’? Algorithms and implementations
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24, 802–813. (*, equal contributions)
- *Winner of the 2022 SANS Innovation Award
- *Selected among ‘Best of Trends’ 2020
Basile BM, Schafroth JL, Karaskiewicz CL, Chang SWC, Murray EA (2020)
The anterior cingulate cortex is necessary for forming prosocial preferences from vicarious reinforcement in monkeys
PLoS Biology, 18, e3000677.
- *Primer: Lockwood PL, O’Nell KC, and Apps MAJ (2020). Anterior cingulate cortex: A brain system necessary for learning to reward others? PLoS Biology, 18, e3000735.
Dal Monte O, Chu CJC, Fagan NA, Chang SWC (2020)
Specialized medial prefrontal-amygdala coordination in other-regarding decision preference
Nature Neuroscience, 23, 565–574.
- *Winner of the 2021 SANS Innovation Award
Gollwitzer A, Martel C, Bargh JA, Chang SWC (2020)
Aversion towards simple broken patterns predicts moral judgment
Personality and Individual Differences, 160, 109810.
Fan S*, Weinberg-Wolf H*, Piva M, Dal Monte O, Chang SWC (2020)
Combinatorial oxytocin neuropharmacology in social cognition
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24, 8–12. (*, co-first authors)
2019
Piva M, Velnoskey K, Jia R, Nair A, Levy I, Chang SWC (2019)
The dorsomedial prefrontal cortex computes task-invariant relative subjective value for self and other
eLife, 8, e44939.
Weinberg-Wolf H and Chang SWC (2019)
Differences in how macaques monitor others: does serotonin play a central role?
WIREs Cognitive Science, 10, wcs.1494.
2018
Stanton CH, Holmes AJ, Chang SWC, Joormann J (2018)
From stress to anhedonia: molecular processes through functional circuits
Trends in Neurosciences, 42, 23–42.
Dal Monte O, Fan S, Chang SWC (2018)
Social subjective value in the primate midbrain
Nature Neuroscience, 21, 1298–1299.
Chang SWC and Dal Monte O (2018)
Shining light on social learning circuits
Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 22, 673–675.
Weinberg-Wolf H, Fagan NA, Anderson GM, Tringides M, Dal Monte O and Chang SWC (2018)
The effects of 5-hydroxytryptophan on attention and central serotonin neurochemistry in the rhesus macaque
Neuropsychopharmacology, 43, 1589–1598.
Piva M and Chang SWC (2018)
An integrated framework for the role of oxytocin in multistage social decision-making
American Journal of Primatology, 80, e22735.
- *Selected as Top 20 Most-Read Paper in the journal in 2017–2018
2017
Piva M, Zhang X, Noah A, Chang SWC, Hirsch J (2017)
Distributed neural activity patterns during human-to-human competition
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 11, 571.
Barack DL, Chang SWC, Platt ML (2017)
Posterior cingulate neurons dynamically signal decisions to disengage during foraging
Neuron, 96, 339–347.
Chang SWC (2017)
An emerging field of primate social neurophysiology: Current developments
eNeuro, 4, e0295.
Turrin C, Fagan NA, Dal Monte O, Chang SWC (2017)
Social resource foraging is guided by the principles of the Marginal Value Theorem
Scientific Reports, 7, 11274.
Joiner J, Piva M, Turrin C, Chang SWC (2017)
Social learning through prediction error in the brain
NPJ Science of Learning, 2, Article 8.
Dal Monte O*, Piva M*, Anderson KM, Tringides M, Holmes AJ, Chang SWC (2017)
Oxytocin under opioid antagonism leads to supralinear enhancement of social attention
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 114, 5247–5252. (*, co-first authors)
2016
Dal Monte O*, Piva M*, Morris JA, Chang SWC (2016)
Live interaction distinctively shapes social gaze dynamics in rhesus macaques
Journal of Neurophysiology, 116, 1626–1643. (*, co-first authors) [movie 1, movie 2, movie 3]
Ebner NC, Bailey PE, Horta M, Joiner JA, Chang SWC (2016)
Multidisciplinary perspective on prosociality in aging
In J. Sommerville & J. Decety (Eds.), Social Cognition: Development across the Life Span (Psychology Press | Taylor and Francis Group).
Apps MAJ, Rushworth MFS, Chang SWC (2016)
The anterior cingulate gyrus and social cognition: tracking the motivation of others
Neuron, 90, 692–707.
Chang SWC, Calton JL, Lawrence BM, Dickinson AR, and Snyder LH (2016)
Region-specific summation patterns inform the role of cortical areas in selecting motor plans
Cerebral Cortex, 26, 2154–2166.
2015
Chang SWC, Fagan NA, Toda K, Utevsky AV, Pearson JM and Platt ML (2015)
Neural mechanisms of social decision-making in the primate amygdala
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 112, 16012–16017.
Du E and Chang SWC (2015)
Neural components of altruistic punishment
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 9, Article 26.
2014
Chang SWC and Isoda M (2014)
Toward a better understanding of social learning, social deciding, and other-regarding preferences
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 8, 362. (Editorial to Research Topic eBook)
(Editors: Chang & Isoda. Entire issue: )
Chang SWC and Platt ML (2014)
Amygdala: Eyes wide open
Current Biology, 24, R1000–R1002.
Pedersen CA, Chang SWC, and Williams CL (2014)
Evolutionary perspectives on the role of oxytocin in human social behavior, social cognition and psychopathology
Brain Research, 1580, 1–7. (Special Issue: Oxytocin and Social Behavior)
(Editors: Pedersen, Chang & Williams. Entire issue: )
Chang SWC and Platt ML (2014)
Oxytocin and social cognition in rhesus macaques: Implications for understanding and treating human psychopathology
Brain Research, 1580, 57–68. (Special Issue: Oxytocin and Social Behavior)
2013
Brent LJN, Chang SWC, Gariépy JF, and Platt ML (2013)
The neuroethology of friendship
Annals of the N.Y. Academy of Sciences (The Year in Cognitive Neuroscience), 1316, 1–17.
Chang SWC (2013)
Coordinate transformation approach to social interactions
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 7, 147.
Gariépy JF, Chang SWC and Platt ML (2013)
Brain games: toward a neuroecology of social behavior
Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 36, 424–425.
Chang SWC, Brent LJN, Adams GK, Klein JT, Pearson JM, Watson KK, and Platt ML (2013)
Neuroethology of primate social behavior
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 110, 10387–10394.
(In Spanish )
Chang SWC, Gariépy JF and Platt ML (2013)
Neuronal reference frames for social decisions in primate frontal cortex
Nature Neuroscience, 16, 243–250.
2012
Chang SWC, Barack DL and Platt ML (2012)
Mechanistic classification of neural circuit dysfunctions: Insights from neuroeconomics research in animals
Biological Psychiatry, 72, 101–106.
Chang SWC and Snyder LH (2012)
The representations of reach endpoints in posterior parietal cortex depend on which hand does the reaching
Journal of Neurophysiology, 107, 2352–2365.
Chang SWC, Barter JW, Ebitz RB, Watson KK, and Platt ML (2012)
Inhaled oxytocin amplifies both vicarious reinforcement and self reinforcement in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 109, 959–964.
- *Feature Highlight: Whalley K (2012). Social neuroscience: Oxytocin boosts social awareness. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 13, 72.
2011
Chang SWC, Winecoff AA, and Platt ML (2011)
Vicarious reinforcement in rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta)
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 5, 27.
2010
Chang SWC and Snyder LH (2010)
Idiosyncratic and systematic aspects of spatial representations in the macaque parietal cortex
Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci., 107, 7951–7956.
Churchland MM, Yu BM, Cunningham JP, Sugrue LP, Cohen MR, Corrado GS, Newsome WT, Clark AM, Hosseini P, Scott BB, Bradley DC, Smith MA, Kohn A, Movshon JA, Armstrong KM, Moore T, Chang SWC, Snyder LH, Lisberger SG, Priebe NJ, Finn IM, Ferster D, Ryu SI, Santhanam G, Sahani M, and Shenoy K (2010)
Stimulus onset quenches neural variability: a widespread cortical phenomenon
Nature Neuroscience, 13, 369–378.
2009
Chang SWC, Papadimitriou C, and Snyder LH (2009)
Using a compound gain field to compute a reach plan
Neuron, 64, 744–755.
- *Preview: Blohm G & Crawford JD (2009). Fields of gain in the brain. Neuron, 64, 598–600.
2008
Chang SWC, Dickinson AR and Snyder LH (2008)
Limb-specific representations of reaching in the posterior parietal cortex
Journal of Neuroscience, 28, 6128–6140.
2004
Chang SWC and Abrams R (2004)
Hand movements deviate toward distracters in the absence of response competition
Journal of General Psychology (Special Issue: Movement, Attention, and Perception), 131, 328–344.
Preprints
Lin A, Akafia C, Dal Monte O, Fan S, Fagan N, Putnam P, Tye KM, Chang SWC, Ba D, Allsop AS (2024)
An unbiased method to partition diverse neuronal responses into functional ensembles reveals interpretable population dynamics during innate social behavior
bioRxiv, doi.org/10.1101/2024.05.08.593229.
Chawla M*, Piva M*, Ahmed S, Jia R, Levy I, Chang SWC (2022)
Individual decision-making underlying the tragedy of the commons
bioRxiv, doi.org/10.1101/2022.11.29.518377. (*, co-first authors)
Joiner JA, Nair AR, Fagan NA, Chang SWC (2022)
Social curiosity in monkeys
bioRxiv, doi.org/10.1101/2022.11.15.516657.
Graves KN*, Rubien-Thomas E*, Streat DA, Chang SWC (2021)
Knowledge is em(power)ing: Historically underrepresented groups benefit from exposure to information about advanced degrees in psychology
PsyArXiv, doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/mqdw9. (*, co-first authors)