Toward collective animal neuroscience
Résumé
From humans to fish to ants, social animals coordinate their behavior when in groups, and their neural system might do so as well. Yet the individual brain, studied in isolation, has so far been the fundamental unit of analysis of most neuroscience research. Animal wisdom has been searched for in how neurons interact within individual brains. But what if embedding the brain in a group changed how it works? And even more boldly, what if the laws of wisdom were to be found in how brains interact in a group, rather than in how neurons interact in a single brain? On pages 422 and 421 of this issue, Rose et al. (1) and Báez-Mendoza et al. (2) show that brains of bats and rhesus macaques track group interactions by, respectively, coordinating their activity and representing the group in single neuron activity.
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Neurosciences
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