A Map of Social Space in Your Brain

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Shortform link: https://shortform.com/artem My name is Artem, I'm a computational neuroscience student and researcher. In this video we talk about how hippocampus serves a "social map", representing information about conspecific individuals at different levels of abstraction. Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/artemkirsanov Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArtemKRSV OUTLINE: 00:00 Introduction 03:30 Overview of physical place cells 04:57 Social information in physical space 11:28 Abstract social space 15:36 Recap 16:12 Shortform 17:03 Outro REFERENCES: 1. Omer, D. B., Maimon, S. R., Las, L. & Ulanovsky, N. Social place-cells in the bat hippocampus. Science 359, 218–224 (2018). 2. Tavares, R. M. et al. A Map for Social Navigation in the Human Brain. Neuron 87, 231–243 (2015). 3. Schafer, M. & Schiller, D. Navigating Social Space. Neuron 100, 476–489 (2018). 4. Eichenbaum, H. The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map … of Social Space. Neuron 87, 9–11 (2015). CREDITS: Icons by https://biorender.com 3D model of a bat (CC license) - https://skfb.ly/6WEYy Brain 3D models were modeled with Blender software using publicly available BrainGlobe atlases (https://brainglobe.info/atlas-api)