Shortform link:
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My name is Artem, I'm a computational neuroscience student and researcher. In this video we talk about how hippocampus serves a "social map", representing information about conspecific individuals at different levels of abstraction.

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OUTLINE:
00:00 Introduction
03:30 Overview of physical place cells
04:57 Social information in physical space
11:28 Abstract social space
15:36 Recap
16:12 Shortform
17:03 Outro

REFERENCES:

1. Omer, D. B., Maimon, S. R., Las, L. & Ulanovsky, N. Social place-cells in the bat hippocampus. Science 359, 218–224 (2018).
2. Tavares, R. M. et al. A Map for Social Navigation in the Human Brain. Neuron 87, 231–243 (2015).
3. Schafer, M. & Schiller, D. Navigating Social Space. Neuron 100, 476–489 (2018).
4. Eichenbaum, H. The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map … of Social Space. Neuron 87, 9–11 (2015).

CREDITS:
Icons by https://biorender.com
3D model of a bat (CC license) - https://skfb.ly/6WEYy
Brain 3D models were modeled with Blender software using publicly available BrainGlobe atlases (https://brainglobe.info/atlas-api)