Meghan Cum, Jocelyn A Santiago Pérez, Erika Wangia, Naeliz Lopez, Elizabeth S Wright, Ryo L Iwata, Albert Li, Amelia R Chambers, Nancy Padilla-Coreano
Social recognition is crucial for survival in social species, and necessary for group living, selective reproduction, pair bonding, and dominance hierarchies. Mice and rats are the most commonly used animal models in social memory research, however current paradigms do not account for the complex social dynamics they exhibit in the wild. To assess the range of social memories being studied, we conducted a systematic analysis of neuroscience articles testing the social memory of mice and rats published within the past two decades and analyzed their methods...
January 26, 2024: Scientific Reports