Thrilled to share our latest work in @Nature studying inter-brain neural dynamics in both biological and artificial intelligence systems — amazing work by @xzh_brain, Nguyen Phi, and fantastic collaboration with @JonathanCKao! Read the full article here:

Our findings suggest that shared neural dynamics represent a fundamental and generalizable feature of interacting neural systems present in both biological and artificial agents and highlight the functional significance of shared neural dynamics in driving social interactions.

We extended this framework to artificial intelligence agents and observed that, as social interactions emerged, so too did shared neural dynamics between interacting agents. Importantly, selectively disrupting the neural components that contribute to shared neural dynamics.

By measuring activities of molecularly defined neurons in the dorsomedial prefrontal cortex of socially interacting mice, we find that the multi-dimensional neural space within each individual can be partitioned into two distinct subspaces—a shared neural subspace that represents.

Social interaction can be viewed as a dynamic feedback loop between interacting individuals as they act and react to one another. To understand the neural basis of these interactions, we investigated inter-brain neural dynamics across individuals in both biological brains and.

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Thanks to William Sheeran and Zoe Donaldson for their insightful perspective piece highlighting our work.

Congratulations to @Fangmiao4 and Emily Wu! A special shoutout to Li Zhang at USC for their converging and complementary findings!.

We identified the medial amygdala (MeA) as a key region that encodes the unresponsive state of others and drives this head-directed physical contact. Notably, the behavioral responses toward unresponsive conspecifics differed from those directed at awake, stressed individuals,.

In this study, we demonstrated that mice exhibit rescue-like social behaviors toward unresponsive conspecifics, characterized by intense physical contact and grooming directed at the recipient’s facial and mouth areas, which expedite their recovery from unresponsiveness.

Humans often take actions to assist others experiencing unresponsiveness, such as transient loss of consciousness. How other animals react to unresponsive conspecifics—and the neural mechanisms driving such behaviors—remain largely unexplored.

We are excited to share our latest work showing that mice display rescue-like prosocial behavior toward unresponsive partners. @ScienceMagazine .

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Special thanks to @Zmingmin and Emily Wu who made this work possible!.

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Finally, we demonstrate a causal role of ACC neurons in bidirectionally controlling this helping behavior. Inhibition of ACC activity reduces allolicking, whereas activation of the ACC is sufficient to enhance allolicking behavior specifically toward the injury site.