Social Neuroscience

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Created on: 08-05-17 14:06

what are some of the benefits of social behaviour?

mating & care of young (contact & kin availability), protection against predators (group defence), foraging & cooperative hunting (info & prey size), manipulation of environment (burrows, hives), division of labour (specialisation), cultural transmis

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what areas are activated in Bartels & Zeki (2004) fMRI study of love?

areas related to reward centres that are rich in oxytocin and vasopressin receptors 0 visual/occipital cortex and fusiform cortex because looking at faces - and insula and stiatum reward centres

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what did Pedersen et al (2006) find OTR-KO mice displayed?

Reduced maternal behavior pups scattered throughout cage, mothers take longer to retrieve pups, spend less time crouching/over suckling pups, and less time licking/grooming pups

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which voles exhibit monogamous structures?

Prairie vole (mictrotus ochrogaster)

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Which voles don’t exhibit monogamous structures?

Meadow voles (microtus pennysylvanicus) and montane voles (microtus monotonous) are solitary and polygamous

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How is oxytocin proscocial?

It promotes maternal behavior, pair bonding & social bonding, attachment in young, social recognition, and consolidation behavior

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Which 3 regions was the OTR antagonist injected into in Young et al’s (2001) study?

PFC, CP, and NAcc

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What does the social recognition test success depend on?

Accurate perception of anothers individual olfactory signature, and memory, and social novelty detection

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