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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computational Neuroscience

Background:

  • Social interaction is a dynamic feedback loop.
  • Understanding the neural basis of social interaction is crucial.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate inter-brain neural dynamics in mice and AI systems.
  • Identify neural mechanisms underlying social interactions.

Main Methods:

  • Measured neuronal activity in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex of socially interacting mice.
  • Analyzed neural dynamics in artificial intelligence agents.
  • Partitioned neural space into shared and unique subspaces.
  • Disrupted neural components contributing to shared dynamics.

Main Results:

  • Identified shared and unique neural subspaces within individuals during social interaction.
  • GABAergic neurons exhibited a larger shared neural subspace compared to glutamatergic neurons.
  • Shared neural dynamics emerged in AI agents during social interaction.
  • Disrupting shared neural dynamics reduced social actions in AI agents.

Conclusions:

  • Shared neural dynamics are a fundamental and generalizable feature of interacting neural systems.
  • Shared neural dynamics play a functional role in driving social interactions in both biological and artificial agents.