Hippocampal representations during natural social behaviors in a bat colony
Saikat Ray,Itay Yona,Liora Las,Nachum Ulanovsky · COSYNE 2022
Highly-social animals, like humans, live with many individuals, and interact with each other at times, locations and manner of their choosing. However, neurophysiological investigations of social responses are rarely conducted in such rich settings. To determine how the brain represents social information in a naturalistic setting – when the animals’ behavior is not experimentally constrained to a particular task – we constructed a bat cave for a colony of 5–10 bats of both sexes. The bats lived there 24×7, free to engage in any behaviors. Every day we conducted a ~3 hour experimental session,
Sat, Mar 19, 2022