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 neuroscience PhD student at Harvard University. 🌎 Website and Social links: https://kirsanov.ai/ 📥 "Receptive Field" neuro-newsletter: https://artemkirsanov.substack.com/ ✨ Support me on Patreon to get access to Discord community: https://patreon.com/artemkirsanov ===== In this video we talk about how hippocampus serves a "social map", representing information about conspecific individuals at different levels of abstraction. 🕒 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 📚 FURTHER READING & 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). ===== 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) ===== *Disclaimer:* This channel is my personal project. The views and content expressed here are my own and are separate from my research role at Harvard University. #neuroscience #psychology #brain _Description remastered: February 2026. Links & Bio updated; original context preserved._