Reciprocal processes of sensory perception and social bonding: an integrated social-sensory framework of social behavior.

ABSTRACT: Organisms filter the complexity of natural stimuli through their individual sensory and perceptual systems. Such perceptual filtering is particularly important for social stimuli. A shared "social umwelt" allows individuals to respond appropriately to the expected diversity of cues and signals during social interactions. In this way, the behavioral and neurobiological mechanisms of sociality and social bonding cannot be disentangled from perceptual mechanisms and sensory processing. While a degree of embeddedness between social and sensory processes is clear, our dominant theoretical frameworks favor treating the social and sensory processes as distinct. An integrated social-sensory framework has the potential to greatly expand our understanding of the mechanisms underlying individual vari

SUBMITTER: Prior NH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9744507 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature