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Dominance hierarchy regulates social behavior during spatial movement.

Ariel Lara-Vasquez¹, Nelson Espinosa¹, Cristian Morales¹

¹Centro Integrativo de Neurociencias y Departamento de Psiquiatría, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile.

Frontiers in Neuroscience

|February 22, 2024

Summary

Dominance hierarchy in mice influences collective navigation and foraging. Dominant mice, sensitive to social cues, adjust behavior and show distinct neural activity in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex.

Keywords:

cortical oscillations dominance hierarchy hippocampus medial prefrontal cortex prefrontal cortex social behavior spatial navigation

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Area of Science:

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Behavioral Ecology
Animal Behavior

Background:

Dominance hierarchies are crucial social structures in rodents, regulating resources like food and mating opportunities.
The role of dominance in collective behaviors such as navigation and foraging remains largely unexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate how social dominance influences individual and collective navigation in mice during a foraging task.
To explore the neural underpinnings of social sensitivity and behavioral adjustments related to dominance hierarchy.

Main Methods:

Mice performed a goal-directed spatial foraging task individually and collectively.
Behavioral displacement patterns and task performance were compared across social conditions.
Neural activity in the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus was recorded, focusing on firing rates and oscillations.

Main Results:

Social context significantly altered individual movement patterns, even after learning efficient navigation strategies.
Dominant mice exhibited heightened sensitivity to social interactions, adjusting their performance rather than leading.
Dominant animals showed distinct neural activity, including higher firing rates and enhanced hippocampal-prefrontal circuit coordination during collective movement.

Conclusions:

Dominance hierarchy significantly impacts behavioral performance in social navigation and foraging tasks.
Neural activity in the hippocampal-prefrontal circuit supports the influence of social rank on behavior during collective interactions.