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Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN)

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S4SN is an international, interdisciplinary, scientific, non-profit society. #S4SN2026 will be announced soon! 🧠 Website: http://www.s4sn.org

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Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social · Oct 13

Welcome!

The mission of the @s4sn.bsky.social is to serve as an international, interdisciplinary, distributed gathering place to advance and foster scientific training, research, and applications in the field for the sake of humankind. 🧠

Find more info here: www.s4sn.org

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Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social · 12h

Check your inboxes - the post-meeting survey has been sent out to all attendees! 💖

We're looking forward to your feedback and input!

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Saikat Ray @ray-neuro.bsky.social · 6d

This is such a fun meeting. If you are in social neuroscience - you should come. Heck even if you are not - the science is great in general! And a fun mix of animal and human research!

Next time in Canada!

Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social · 13d

Saykat Ray observed natural behavior in fruit bats 🦇 and found that spatial place cells also encode social information.

These place cells are a cognitive map of the social environment! 😱

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Katerina Michalaki @katerinamichalaki.bsky.social · 8d

A great week at #s4sn2025 in beautiful Lisbon ☀️

Outstanding talks, engaging discussions, brilliant colleagues and unforgettable pasteis de nata. Lisbon was a real highlight!

A huge thank you to the organizing team for putting together such an engaging, and beautifully run conference.

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Christopher "Tyler" Short @acetylercholine.bsky.social · 11d

I had such an incredible time at @s4sn.bsky.social. I took a lot of pictures of Portugal but none at the conference, so here's a video of an otter at the aquarium.

Thanks so much to the organizers for putting together a great conference, and thanks to all the presenters!
#S4SN2025

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Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social · 12d

And that's a wrap for #S4SN2025! 💖

Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social · 12d

Now, after so much science, new impressions, and stimulating discussions, off to the last social event at #S4SN2025! 🥳

After all, 'social neuroscience' includes being social and that can be done at a party 😁💃🕺

Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social · 12d

In Marco Wittmann's #S4SN2025 talk, we learned that the brain reduces complexity in social situations by tracking the relationships that exist in a social group.

These basic functions are computed in the pregenual anterior cingulate cortex. 🧠

Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social · 12d

And Pyungwon Kang shows that observational learning is influenced by social factors, but the neural mechanisms underlying this are still relatively unknown.

Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social · 12d

Masaki Isoda talked as about important brain areas for monitoring the actions of others.

They identified 3 subtypes of neurons: active during self actions, active during both self and other actions and active during other actions! 🤯

Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social · 12d

In the symposium on a cross-species perspective on the role of the frontal cortex in monitoring one's own actions and those of others, #S4SN2025 featured great minds:

Chunyu Ann Duan told us that mice dynamically adapt their strategies in a foraging task as soon as it becomes competitive.

Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social · 12d

Work from Seng Bum Michael Yoo shows that in reinforcement learning, agents optimize their strategies and in a social version they have to integrate their own actions and those of others.

Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social · 12d

Eric Fortune works on coordinated communication in songbirds (wrens).

Most neurophysiological activity happens when the birds sing themselves, while there is inhibition when the other sings. 🐦🐦‍⬛

Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social · 12d

Zoe Donaldson presented work on relationship formation in voles

Partners show higher inter-brain synchrony than strangers, because this synchrony decreases with strangers.

They now want to move their experiments out of the lab into more ecologically valid environments.

Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social · 12d

On the last day of #S4SN2025, there were many more cool presentations!

In the symposium on cortical mechanisms of behavioral coordination and competition, Jarildy Javier showed that mice have different phenotypes in coordinated reward behavior - workers & parasites! 😱

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Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social · 12d

Fabian Grabenhorst presented work on the complexity of close human relationships!

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Dr. Helena Hartmann (she/her) @helenahartmann.com · 13d

Btw, this week I'm (kinda live) posting for @s4sn.bsky.social as it is their annual conference #S4SN2025 in beautiful Lisbon!

If you're interested in social neuroscience, follow along! ⤵️

Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social · 13d

Wow that's already day 3 done! Who's ready for the last day of #S4SN2025 social neuroscience fun tomorrow? 🥲

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Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social · 13d

Wow that's already day 3 done! Who's ready for the last day of #S4SN2025 social neuroscience fun tomorrow? 🥲

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Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social · 15d

And we're on!!! Don't forget to tag us or use the hashtag #S4SN2025 for all your conference activities! 🤩

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Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social · 13d

Aaaand Felix LeRoy looked at a mouse model of autism.

These mice are less sociable and were less dominant/inquisitive when an intruder was present. In these mice, the vasopressinergic system is deregulated (this specifically affects social behavior and aggression)!

Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social · 13d

Jennifer Bartz presented work on oxytocin & attachment styles! 🌟

Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social · 13d

Alisha Vabba presents work on the "law of silence" aka psychological pressure to not cooperate with authorities in the presence of danger.

Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social · 13d

And a few great short/invited talks by cool people at #S4SN2025! ⤵️

Tommy Lee explains how variation in OXTR Levels affects partner preference in voles!

Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social · 13d

Jean-Claude Dreher reveals that distinct social learning processes are computed differently in the brain 🧠

Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social · 13d

Ketika Garg asks: How do people navigate differences in risk when they must make joint decisions as a group? 🤔👭

Society for Social Neuroscience (S4SN) @s4sn.bsky.social · 13d

Igor Kagan shows that monkeys and humans coordinate with another individual of the same species in transparent decisions, with some differences in choice behavior! 🤩🐒