Neurobiological and cognitive mechanisms of social behaviour"

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titleNeurobiological and cognitive mechanisms of social behaviour"
start_date2018/10/11
schedule12h-13h
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location_infosall 01-02
detailsSéminaire exceptionnel. Invité par Claire Wyart
summaryMuch of our research concerns the fine-scale neural and cognitive details of social interactions. In particular we are interested in characterizing neurobiological mechanisms that facilitate social influence, linking these proximate mechanisms with broad-scale and emergent properties of social groups. We also take a strong interest in the cognitive abilities of social animals, asking how cognitive abilities covary with social tasks like individual recognition, mate choice, and competition. We use a range of techniques, from measuring the neural activity in different brain regions associated with different social tasks, to examining differences in brain morphology between closely related cichlid species that are social or non-social.
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