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  05 May 2023 | Open Access

  Dynamic and stable hippocampal representations of social identity and reward expectation support associative social memory in male mice

  The ability to recognize an individual and retrieve related information is crucial for social animals. Here, the authors employ a new social recognition paradigm to show that dorsal CA1 neurons distinguish individual mice and encode associated reward information.

  • Eunji Kong
  • , Kyu-Hee Lee
  •  & Doyun Lee

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  31 August 2020 | Open Access

  The effect of military training on the sense of agency and outcome processing

  Working in military structures implies a reduction in individual autonomy, in which agents must comply with hierarchical orders. Here, the authors show that working within such a structure is associated with a reduced sense of agency and outcome processing for junior cadets, but this relationship is absent in trained officers.

  • Emilie A. Caspar
  • , Salvatore Lo Bue
  •  & Axel Cleeremans

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  12 March 2018 | Open Access

  Development of the social brain from age three to twelve years

  Though adults’ brains process the internal states of others’ bodies versus others’ minds in distinct brain regions, it is not clear when this functional dissociation emerges. Here, authors study 3–12 year olds and show that these networks are distinct by age 3 and become even more distinct with age.

  • Hilary Richardson
  • , Grace Lisandrelli
  •  & Rebecca Saxe