Journal
TRENDS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCES
Volume 25, Issue 10, Pages 831-842Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2021.06.005
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The text discusses the relationship between neural computations and socially meaningful territories, proposing the role of oxytocin in this process and how it may influence geometric coding to represent social territories.
As we skillfully navigate through familiar places, neural computations of distances and coordinates escape our attention. However, we perceive clearly the division of space into socially meaningful territories. 'My space' versus 'your space' is a distinction familiar to all of us. Spatial frontiers are social in nature since they regulate individuals' access to utilities in space depending on hierarchy and affiliation. How does the brain integrate spatial geometry with social territory? We propose that the action of oxytocin (OT) in the entorhinal- hippocampal regions supports this process. Grounded on the functional role of the hypothalamic neuropeptide in the hippocampal system, we show how OT-induced plasticity may bias the geometrical coding of place and grid cells to represent social territories.
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