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SUBMITTER: Munuera J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6092962 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Munuera Jérôme J Rigotti Mattia M Salzman C Daniel CD
Nature neuroscience 20180219 3
The social brain hypothesis posits that dedicated neural systems process social information. In support of this, neurophysiological data have shown that some brain regions are specialized for representing faces. It remains unknown, however, whether distinct anatomical substrates also represent more complex social variables, such as the hierarchical rank of individuals within a social group. Here we show that the primate amygdala encodes the hierarchical rank of individuals in the same neuronal e ...[more]