Animals can learn about sources of danger while minimizing their own risk by observing
how others respond to threats. However, the distinct neural mechanisms by which threats …

Fear learning is a critical feature of survival skills among mammals. In rodents, fear learning
manifests itself through direct experience of the aversive event or social transmission of …

For individuals to survive and function in society, it is essential that they recognize, interact
with, and learn from other conspecifics. Observational fear (OF) is the well-conserved …

Affective empathy enables social mammals to learn and transfer emotion to conspecifics, but
an understanding of the neural circuitry and genetics underlying affective empathy is still …

Maternal behaviours, which are crucial for the survival of mammalian infants, can be
learned,. How the efficient acquisition of these behaviours is implemented at the neural …

Animals can acquire new knowledge by observing others' contexts and behavior, a process
called social learning, which is essential for animals to survive in nature. While the social …

Balancing reward and avoidance to produce an adaptive behavior is a critical aspect of
conflict resolution. Here, we investigated how mice balance reward-seeking and avoidance …