Emotional contagion and helping behavior: Learning to be good recruits cell subpopulation in the dorsal hippocampus in mice
Moisés dos Santos Corrêa, Charitha Omprakash, Esmeralda Tafani, Ada Braun, Melissa Lowitch, Anne Albrecht, Pavol Bauer, Sanja Mikulovic · FENS Forum 2024
Emotional contagion, the capacity to internally simulate another's emotional state, plays a crucial role in modulating prosocial behavior. This includes rescue behaviors, wherein individuals in a safe context intervene to release a trapped conspecific from an aversive context. However, little is known about how the perceived emotional arousal of the distressed individual influences the helper's behavior and the underlying neuronal mechanisms driving prosociability. This study explores the involvement of the dorsal hippocampus (dHPC), associated with contextual learning, in emotionally charged
ePoster · Neuroscience