Social Information Processing and Learning in Rodents

Liu, Robert

Title:

Social Information Processing and Learning in Rodents

dc.contributor.author	Liu, Robert
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. Neural Engineering Center	en_US
dc.contributor.corporatename	Emory University. Dept. of Biology	en_US
dc.date.accessioned	2017-12-19T20:22:51Z
dc.date.available	2017-12-19T20:22:51Z
dc.date.issued	2017-11-27
dc.description	Presented on November 27, 2017 at 11:15 a.m. in the Krone Engineered Biosystems Building, room 1005.	en_US
dc.description	Dr. Robert Liu is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biology at Emory University. He is a neuroscientist with a physics background, working at the intersection of the fields of auditory neuroethology and social neuroscience.	en_US
dc.description	Runtime: 57:10 minutes	en_US
dc.description.abstract	There is an increasing appreciation that mental health disorders often include social-specific deficits, motivating research into the neurophysiological mechanisms that underlie natural, social behaviors in mammals. Information about other individuals is constantly being acquired, assessed and learned from cues emitted during social interactions. However, our understanding about processing and plasticity mechanisms for sensory cues has generally come from studies of nonsocial contexts, leaving a gap in our knowledge about their relevance in social contexts. My lab has been addressing this gap by applying a computational neuroethological paradigm to investigate social-sensory information processing and plasticity in robust, natural rodent social behaviors. In this talk, I will first review recent work about sensory cortical plasticity when maternal mice learn the natural, behavioral meaning of a category of ultrasonic vocalizations emitted by pups – findings that were unexpected based on prior auditory cortical plasticity studies from nonsocial contexts. I will then present new research investigating neural activity underlying social interactions in the monogamous prairie vole, a premier animal model for elucidating the neural bases for prosocial bonding. Exploiting both electrophysiological and optogenetic methods, our results provide the first dynamic view of corticostriatal processes involved in bond formation, revealing how social interactions recruit reward systems to drive changes in affiliative behavior.	en_US
dc.format.extent	57:10 minutes
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/59093
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	GT Neuro Seminar Series
dc.subject	Auditory	en_US
dc.subject	Cortex	en_US
dc.subject	Pair bonding	en_US
dc.title	Social Information Processing and Learning in Rodents	en_US
dc.type	Moving Image
dc.type.genre	Lecture
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