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Social status as a latent variable in the amygdala of observers of social interactions.
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- Neural Bases of Collective Social Behavior and Group Interactions across Species.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2026Review
- Saccade-related LFP power transients in the primate amygdala and hippocampus linked to the perception of social status.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Serotonergic Projection from the Dorsal Raphe Nucleus to the Basolateral Amygdala Bidirectionally Modulates Sociability in Mice.Neuroscience bulletin · 2026Article
- Conversational linguistic features inform social-relational inference.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Article
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Successful integration into a hierarchical social group requires knowledge of the status of each individual and of the rules that govern social interactions within the group. In species that lack morphological indicators of status, social status can be inferred by observing the signals exchanged between individuals. We simulated social interactions between macaques by juxtaposing videos of aggressive and appeasing displays, where two individuals appeared in each other's line of sight and their displays were timed to suggest the reciprocation of dominant and subordinate signals. Viewers of these videos successfully inferred the social status of the interacting characters. Dominant individuals attracted more social attention from viewers even when they were not engaged in social displays. Neurons in the viewers' amygdala signaled the status of both the attended (fixated) and the unattended individuals, suggesting that in third-party observers of social interactions, the amygdala jointly signals the status of interacting parties.
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