Eleonora RussoNew work on the neural encoding of social recognition and the role played by oxytocin in it. It was a great pleasure to collaborate with David Wolf, Jonathan Reinwald, Renée Hartig, Wolfgang Kelsch and colleagues!
Oxytocin induces the formation of distinctive cortical representations and cognitions biased toward familiar mice - Nature Communications
Recognition memory for other individuals forms quickly. Here the authors show that such memories are enabled by oxytocin and can be retrieved from reinforced and more distinct neural representations even when only limited sensory information is available.