Snout-to-snout contact modulates the response of rat auditory cortex to calls from other animals, indicating that the multisensory nature of social interaction is directly represented in the rat brain.
Alan V Rincon, Bridget M Waller ... Jérôme Micheletta
Detailed quantification of macaque facial behavior reveals a positive link between social and communicative complexity, and helps us to better understand the evolution of animal communication.
Nicholas M Grebe, Jean Paul Hirwa ... Stacy Rosenbaum
Mountain gorillas, who live in close-knit social groups with siblings and non-siblings of both sexes throughout their lives, show distinct behavioral biases towards maternal versus paternal kin.
The accuracy of the Hybrid Vocalization Localizer (HyVL) brings a revolution to the study of social vocalizations of rodents and other animals, where vocalizations often occur in close proximity, and will empower downstream analysis of sequence and semantic analyses.
Stefan Brückner, Rajib Schubert ... Hans-Ulrich Mösch
Structural, biophysical and physiological analysis reveals how yeast cell surface adhesins evolved to confer self-nonself discrimination in single cells and whole populations.
Social-affective features predict the perceived similarity of real-world actions better than, and independently of, visual and action-related features, and are extracted at the final stage of a temporal gradient in the brain.