Role of Oxytocin and Vasopressin V1a Receptor Variation on Personality, Social Behavior, Social Cognition, and the Brain in Nonhuman Primates, with a Specific Emphasis on Chimpanzees

2021 ◽  
pp. 134-160
Author(s):  
William D. Hopkins ◽  
Robert D. Latzman
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Social Behavior ◽  
Nonhuman Primates ◽  
V1a Receptor ◽  
Vasopressin V1a Receptor ◽  
The Brain

scholarly journals Prenatal Androgen Effects as a Proximate Mechanism Underpinning Variation in Social Behavior Among Female Nonhuman Primates

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Howlett ◽  
Brandon C. Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Social Behavior ◽  
Nonhuman Primates ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Female Dominance ◽  
Small Female ◽  
Proximate Mechanism ◽  
Cooperative Behaviors ◽  
Androgen Effects ◽  
Prenatal Androgen

AbstractWhile the role of ecological factors in shaping primate social systems has been a central focus for decades, less attention has been given to phylogenetic relationships and the potential role of underlying proximate mechanisms. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between one such proximate mechanism, prenatal androgen effects (PAEs), and aspects of social behavior in female nonhuman primates using the 2D:4D ratio as a proxy for PAEs and phylogenetically controlled methods. In general, female 2D:4D ratios were highest in monogamous species (low inferred PAEs) and lowest in polygynandrous and polygynous species (high inferred PAEs). 2D:4D ratios also varied with the form of polygyny/polygynandry, potentially with regard to the need for competitive over cooperative behaviors and the intensity of female reproductive competition. Species characterized by female dominance had lower 2D:4D ratios than species characterized by male dominance or codominance. There were no significant relationships between 2D:4D ratio and either degree of frugivory or group size. Relationships between 2D:4D ratios and the directional consistency index and 2D:4D ratios and rates of female–female agonism were also nonsignificant although sample sizes for both of these variables were small. Female social relationships are a manifestation of complex competitive and cooperative behaviors and the results suggest that PAEs may act as a proximate mechanism underlying the expression of certain aspects of behavior in female primates in ways that are adaptive to their social system.

scholarly journals Role of the carboxyl-terminal region, di-leucine motif and cysteine residues in signalling and internalization of vasopressin V1a receptor

FEBS Letters ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 460 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laurence Preisser ◽  
Nicolas Ancellin ◽  
Lucie Michaelis ◽  
Christophe Creminon ◽  
Alain Morel ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Terminal Region ◽  
Cysteine Residues ◽  
V1a Receptor ◽  
Carboxyl Terminal ◽  
Vasopressin V1a Receptor

scholarly journals The Human Dynamic Clamp reveals the fronto-parietal network linking real-time social coordination and cognition

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Dumas ◽  
Q. Moreau ◽  
E. Tognoli ◽  
J.A.S. Kelso
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Social Behavior ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Dynamic Clamp ◽  
Sensorimotor Coordination ◽  
Self And Other ◽  
The Right ◽  
High Level ◽  
Sensorimotor Mechanisms ◽  
The Brain

AbstractHow does the brain allow us to interact with others, and above all how does it handle situations when the goals of the interactors overlap (i.e. cooperation) or differ (i.e. competition)? Social neuroscience has already provided some answers to these questions but has tended to treat high-level, cognitive interpretations of social behavior separately from the sensorimotor mechanisms upon which they rely. The goal here is to identify the underlying neural processes and mechanisms linking sensorimotor coordination and intention attribution. We combine the Human Dynamic Clamp (HDC), a novel paradigm for studying realistic social behavior between self and other in well-controlled laboratory conditions, with high resolution electroencephalography (EEG). The collection of humanness and intention attribution reports, kinematics and neural data affords an opportunity to relate brain activity to the behavior of the HDC as well as to what the human is doing. Behavioral results demonstrate that sensorimotor coordination influences judgements of cooperativeness and humanness. Analysis of brain dynamics reveals two distinct networks related to integration of visuo-motor information from self and other. The two networks overlap over the right parietal region, an area known to be important for interpersonal motor interactions. Furthermore, connectivity analysis highlights how the judgement of humanness and cooperation of others modulate the connection between the right parietal hub and prefrontal cortex. These results reveal how distributed neural dynamics integrates information from ‘low-level’ sensorimotor mechanisms and ‘high-level’ social cognition to support the realistic social behaviors that play out in real time during interactive scenarios.Significance StatementDaily social interactions require us to coordinate with others and to reflect on their potential motives. This study investigates the brain and behavioral dynamics of these two key aspects of social cognition. Combining high-density electroencephalography and the Human Dynamic Clamp (a Virtual Partner endowed with human-based coordination dynamics), we show first, that several features of sensorimotor coordination influence attribution of intention and judgement of humanness; second, that the right parietal lobe is a key integration hub between information related to self- and other-behavior; and third, that the posterior online social hub is functionally coupled to anterior offline brain structures to support mentalizing about others. Our results stress the complementary nature of low-level and high-level mechanisms that underlie social cognition.

The Social Context

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lasana T. Harris
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Social Behavior ◽  
Sudden Death ◽  
Thought Experiment ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Social Psychological ◽  
The Social

The seventh chapter argues for the importance of the social context in continuing to influence whether social cognition is engaged or not, and describes a version of the delayed sudden death virus outbreak thought experiment without the death and virus components, set in modern society. This chapter then reviews classical social psychological studies that illustrate the power of the social context in shaping social cognition and resulting behaviour. It describes different types of social contexts, and explores the role of consistency motives in guiding human behaviour. Finally, it makes an appeal for a spectrum metaphor for social behavior, rather than alternative metaphors that categorise the phenomenon too narrowly.

The role of the vasopressin V1A receptor in oxytocin modulation of methamphetamine primed reinstatement

2018 ◽  
Vol 133 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicholas A. Everett ◽  
Iain S. McGregor ◽  
Sarah J. Baracz ◽  
Jennifer L. Cornish
Keyword(s):  
V1a Receptor ◽  
Vasopressin V1a Receptor

scholarly journals The Anatomy of Object Processing: The Role of Anteromedial Temporal Cortex

2005 ◽  
Vol 58 (3-4b) ◽  
pp. 361-377 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Bright ◽  
Helen E. Moss ◽  
Emmanuel A. Stamatakis ◽  
Lorraine K. Tyler
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Neuroscience ◽  
Conceptual Knowledge ◽  
Nonhuman Primates ◽  
Temporal Cortex ◽  
Perirhinal Cortex ◽  
Object Processing ◽  
Fine Grained ◽  
Temporal Structures ◽  
The Brain

How objects are represented and processed in the brain remains a key issue in cognitive neuroscience. We have developed a conceptual structure account in which category-specific semantic deficits emerge due to differences in the structure and content of concepts rather than from explicit divisions of conceptual knowledge in separate stores. The primary claim is that concepts associated with particular categories (e.g., animals, tools) differ in the number and type of properties and the extent to which these properties are correlated with each other. In this review, we describe recent neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies in which we have extended our theoretical account by incorporating recent claims about the neuroanatomical basis of feature integration and differentiation that arise from research into hierarchical object processing streams in nonhuman primates and humans. A clear picture has emerged in which the human perirhinal cortex and neighbouring anteromedial temporal structures appear to provide the neural infrastructure for making fine-grained discriminations among objects, suggesting that damage within the perirhinal cortex may underlie the emergence of category-specific semantic deficits in brain-damaged patients.

scholarly journals Social Robots to Test Flexibility of Human Social Cognition

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 1203-1211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Wykowska
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Social Robots ◽  
Action Representation ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Human Agent ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Psychological Experiments ◽  
Perception Action

AbstractAs the field of social robotics has been dynamically growing and expanding over various areas of research and application, in which robots can be of assistance and companionship for humans, this paper offers a different perspective on a role that social robots can also play, namely the role of informing us about flexibility of human mechanisms of social cognition. The paper focuses on studies in which robots have been used as a new type of “stimuli” in psychological experiments to examine whether similar mechanisms of social cognition would be activated in interaction with a robot, as would be elicited in interaction with another human. Analysing studies in which a direct comparison has been made between a robot and a human agent, the paper examines whether for robot agents, the brain re-uses the same mechanisms that have been developed for interaction with other humans in terms of perception, action representation, attention and higher-order social cognition. Based on this analysis, the paper concludes that the human socio-cognitive mechanisms, in adult brains, are sufficiently flexible to be re-used for robotic agents, at least for those that have some level of resemblance to humans.

The role of putative glycosylation sites in the extracellular loops of the vasopressin V1a receptor

1997 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 435S-435S ◽  
Author(s):  
STUART R. HAWTIN ◽  
ANDREW R. L. DAVIES ◽  
GLENN MATTHEWS ◽  
MARK WHEATLEY
Keyword(s):  
V1a Receptor ◽  
Extracellular Loops ◽  
Glycosylation Sites ◽  
Vasopressin V1a Receptor
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