TY - JOUR
T1 - Social and individual recognition in rodents
T2 - Methodological aspects and neurobiological bases
AU - Gheusi, Gilles
AU - Bluthé, Rose Marie
AU - Goodall, Glyn
AU - Dantzer, Robert
N1 - Funding Information:
We are very grateful to Bernard Thierry for drawing our attention to relevant primate references. This work was supported by INRA-INSERM.
PY - 1994/12
Y1 - 1994/12
N2 - What animals know about each other, and how they construct and use knowledge of their social world involves at least an ability to recognise different social categories. Although much evidence has accumulated that animals are able to identify and classify other individuals into different categories, few studies have definitively demonstrated true individual recognition, i.e. discrimination between individuals on the basis of their idiosyncratic characteristics. Furthermore, the neural structures and pathways involved in social and, a fortiori, individual recognition have as yet been poorly investigated. This paper discusses various methods and measures currently used to assess different forms of social categorisations in animals, with special reference to rodents. Recent progress concerning the neurobiological bases involved in social recognition is also discussed. Finally, integrative perspectives for studying individual recognition in the context of social cognition is underlined in relation to different approaches investigating rodents' ability to use learned olfactory information.
AB - What animals know about each other, and how they construct and use knowledge of their social world involves at least an ability to recognise different social categories. Although much evidence has accumulated that animals are able to identify and classify other individuals into different categories, few studies have definitively demonstrated true individual recognition, i.e. discrimination between individuals on the basis of their idiosyncratic characteristics. Furthermore, the neural structures and pathways involved in social and, a fortiori, individual recognition have as yet been poorly investigated. This paper discusses various methods and measures currently used to assess different forms of social categorisations in animals, with special reference to rodents. Recent progress concerning the neurobiological bases involved in social recognition is also discussed. Finally, integrative perspectives for studying individual recognition in the context of social cognition is underlined in relation to different approaches investigating rodents' ability to use learned olfactory information.
KW - Individual recognition
KW - Main olfactory system
KW - Neurobiological base
KW - Olfactory discrimination
KW - Rodent
KW - Social cognition
KW - Social recognition
KW - Vasopressin
KW - Vomeronasal system
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U2 - 10.1016/0376-6357(94)90060-4
DO - 10.1016/0376-6357(94)90060-4
M3 - Article
C2 - 24925240
AN - SCOPUS:0028609173
SN - 0376-6357
VL - 33
SP - 59
EP - 87
JO - Behavioural Processes
JF - Behavioural Processes
IS - 1-2
ER -