A systematic review and meta-analysis of how social memory is studied.

ABSTRACT: Social recognition is crucial for survival in social species, and necessary for group living, selective reproduction, pair bonding, and dominance hierarchies. Mice and rats are the most commonly used animal models in social memory research, however current paradigms do not account for the complex social dynamics they exhibit in the wild. To assess the range of social memories being studied, we conducted a systematic analysis of neuroscience articles testing the social memory of mice and rats published within the past two decades and analyzed their methods. Our results show that despite these rodent's rich social memory capabilities, the majority of social recognition papers explore short-term memories and short-term familiarity levels with minimal exposure between subject and familiar stim

SUBMITTER: Cum M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10817899 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature