Aggression experience and observation predict shared behavior strategies during defense and promote overlapping changes to a brainwide neural network
Jorge Iravedra, Eartha Mae Guthman, Annegret Falkner · COSYNE 2025
Aggression can be a fundamental social behavior in many species and is importantly modulated by prior aggressive experience. However, how this experience shapes neural activity and whether it predicts behaviors in novel, more challenging aggression contexts are unknown. Moreover, imitation learning theories of aggression suggest that this behavior can be transferred through observation alone1, but whether this learning leverages the same neural mechanisms as experience is unclear. To address these two questions, here we combine novel behavioral mapping strategies with cell-type-specific and mu
ePoster · Neuroscience