Multi-dimensional social relationships shape social attention in monkeys
| Title: | Multi-dimensional social relationships shape social attention in monkeys |
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| Authors: | Sainan Liu, Jiepin Huang, Suhao Chen, Michael L Platt, Yan Yang |
| Source: | eLife, Vol 14 (2025) |
| Publisher Information: | eLife Sciences Publications Ltd, 2025. |
| Publication Year: | 2025 |
| Collection: | LCC:Medicine LCC:Science LCC:Biology (General) |
| Subject Terms: | social attention, social relationships, social engagement, individual engagement, oxytocin, Medicine, Science, Biology (General), QH301-705.5 |
| More Details: | Social relationships guide individual behavior and ultimately shape the fabric of society. Primates exhibit particularly complex, differentiated, and multidimensional social relationships, which form interwoven social networks, reflecting both individual social tendencies and specific dyadic interactions. How the patterns of behavior that underlie these social relationships emerge from moment-to-moment patterns of social information processing remains unclear. Here, we assess social relationships among a group of four monkeys, focusing on aggression, grooming, and proximity. We show that individual differences in social attention vary with individual differences in patterns of general social tendencies and patterns of individual engagement with specific partners. Oxytocin administration altered social attention and its relationship to both social tendencies and dyadic relationships, particularly grooming and aggression. Our findings link the dynamics of visual information sampling to the dynamics of primate social networks. |
| Document Type: | article |
| File Description: | electronic resource |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 2050-084X |
| Relation: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/104460; https://doaj.org/toc/2050-084X |
| DOI: | 10.7554/eLife.104460 |
| Access URL: | https://doaj.org/article/372fc22465b946a297b181f99ddd2ef7 |
| Accession Number: | edsdoj.372fc22465b946a297b181f99ddd2ef7 |
| Database: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
| ISSN: | 2050084X |
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| DOI: | 10.7554/eLife.104460 |
| Published in: | eLife |
| Language: | English |