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Researchers discover how nerve cells in bat brains respond to their environment and social interactions with other bats - EurekAlert


Researchers have found that nerve cells in the hippocampus region of the brain encode complex information on numerous characteristics of other individuals in the same social group. The work, which is being carried out in bats, is the first to show this in a large, mixed-sex group of wild, social animals, and is important because it sheds light on how the brain operates and generates thinking processes and behaviour. It is presented at the Federation of European Neuroscience Societies (FENS) Forum 2024.

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