{"id":3160,"date":"2025-01-31T12:35:22","date_gmt":"2025-01-31T02:35:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/?p=3160"},"modified":"2025-01-31T12:35:22","modified_gmt":"2025-01-31T02:35:22","slug":"how-does-the-brain-actually-represent-the-real-world-with-its-complex-multianimal-settings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/?p=3160","title":{"rendered":"How does the brain actually represent the real world with its complex, multianimal settings?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Saikat Ray, Itay Yona, Nadav Elami, Shaked Palgi, Kenneth W. Latimer, Bente Jacobsen, Menno P. Witter, Liora Las, and Nachum Ulanovsky. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adk9385\"><strong>Hippocampal coding of identity, sex, hierarchy, and affiliation in a social group of wild fruit bats<\/strong><\/a>. Science 387,eadk9385(2025). DOI:10.1126\/science.adk9385<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Abstract<br \/>\n&#8220;Social animals live in groups and interact volitionally in complex ways. However, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">little is known about neural responses under such natural conditions<\/span><\/strong>. Here, <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">we investigated hippocampal CA1 neurons in a mixed-sex group of five to 10 freely behaving wild Egyptian fruit bats that lived continuously in a laboratory-based cave and formed a stable social network<\/span><\/strong>. In-flight, most hippocampal place cells were <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">socially modulated<\/span> and <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">represented the identity and sex of conspecifics<\/span>. Upon social interactions, neurons represented <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">specific interaction types<\/span>. During active observation, neurons encoded the bat\u2019s own <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">position and head direction<\/span>, together with the <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">position, direction, and identity of multiple conspecifics<\/span>. Identity-coding neurons encoded the same bat across contexts. The strength of identity coding was modulated by <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">sex, hierarchy, and social affiliation<\/span>. Thus, hippocampal neurons form a multidimensional <strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">sociospatial representation of the natural world<\/span><\/strong>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Witter, Liora Las, and Nachum Ulanovsky. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adk9385\"><strong>Hippocampal coding of identity, sex, hierarchy, and affiliation in a social group of wild fruit bats<\/strong><\/a>. Science 387,eadk9385(2025). DOI:10.1126\/science.adk9385<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saikat Ray, Itay Yona, Nadav Elami, Shaked Palgi, Kenneth W. Latimer, Bente Jacobsen, Menno P. Witter, Liora Las, and Nachum Ulanovsky. Hippocampal coding of identity, sex, hierarchy, and affiliation in a social group of wild fruit bats. Science 387,eadk9385(2025). DOI:10.1126\/science.adk9385 Abstract &#8220;Social animals live in groups and interact volitionally in complex ways. However, little is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[987,96,346,519],"tags":[1403,810,1402,1057,1075,1401,1400,1404],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3160"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3161,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3160\/revisions\/3161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/braininspirednavigation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}