Rat intersubjective decisions are encoded by frequency-specific oscillatory contexts.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

It is unknown how the brain coordinates decisions to withstand personal costs in order to prevent other individuals' distress. Here we test whether local field potential (LFP) oscillations between brain regions create "neural contexts" that select specific brain functions and encode the outcomes of these types of intersubjective decisions.

Methods

Rats participated in an "Intersubjective Avoidance Test" (IAT) that tested rats' willingness to enter an innately aversive chamber to prevent another rat from getting shocked. c-Fos immunoreactivity was used to screen for brain regions involved in IAT performance. Multi-site local field potential (LFP) recordings were collected simultaneously and bilaterally from five brain regions implicated in the c-Fos studies while

SUBMITTER: Schaich Borg J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5474713 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature