September 28, 2025

The motivated social brain: a neurodevelopmental and evolutionary framework for social curiosity.

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This commentary analyzes social curiosity through a neurodevelopmental and evolutionary lens, highlighting the medial prefrontal cortex's role.

Social curiosity is linked to a conserved system for social valuation centered on the medial prefrontal cortex.
Neuroimaging evidence shows the medial prefrontal cortex engages while infants observe social interactions.
This framework positions social curiosity as a cognitive function, assigning reward value to social information.
Older children's willingness to prioritize social information reflects foundational brain system development.

Tobias Großmann (2025) studied this question.

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This commentary analyzes social curiosity through a neurodevelopmental and evolutionary lens, highlighting the medial prefrontal cortex's role.