Social learning is widespread in the animal kingdom and is involved in behaviours from
navigation and predator avoidance to mate choice and foraging. While social learning has …

Group-living can be socially advantageous where the behavior of individuals may be
modified by group members through socially facilitative processes. Virtual fencing contains …

In a large variety of contexts, it is essential to use the available information to extract patterns
and behave accordingly. When it comes to social interactions for instance, the information …

Social learning, learning from others, allows animals to quickly and adaptively adjust to
changing environments, but only if social learning provides reliable, useful information in …

Abstract Higher Plants or Animals with microbial companions constitute holobionts, being
spatiotemporal interaction networks as (co-) evolutionary selection units. As intrinsic …

Being a part of a social structure is key for survival and reproduction. Living with conspecifics
boosts evolutionary fitness, by providing essential information about the environment …

Humans considerably vary in the degree to which they rely on their peers to make decisions.
Why? Theoretical models predict that environmental risks shift the cost-benefit trade-off …

Learning can enable rapid behavioural responses to changing conditions but can depend
on the social context and behavioural phenotype of the individual. Learning rates have been …

Highlights•Animals regularly use social information (SI) to find resources or avoid threats.•It
is not always clear how their ability to use SI is shaped by experience.•We structured …

Face-selective neurons were discovered in the inferior temporal visual cortex by Perrett et
al.(1982), in the amygdala by Sanghera, Rolls, and Roper-Hall (Sanghera et al. 1979; Rolls …