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Description: Copying others’ behavior or updating beliefs based on social information, also called social learning, is a hallmark of human behavior. It speeds up the adaptation to new situations, as it circumvents the need for more costly trial-and-error learning. However, how do we know when to use social information and whose information to use? How do we combine peer information with our own previous knowledge? How do own uncertainty and peer confidence affect social information use? | Which brain areas are involved in social information use?