Topic: social representation

Recognizing and remembering social conspecifics is crucial for the survival of an organism, but it remains unclear how this information is represented in the brain. Previously, we identified populations of basolateral amygdala (BLA) neurons in the freely-moving rat that were highly tuned to distinct naturalistic stimuli such as male or female conspecifics and food. These neuronal populations showed stable reactivation across multiple presentations of stimuli in the same environment. To understand whether experience can modify this social representation, we recorded from large populations of ne