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Social eavesdropping in zebrafish: Tuning of attention to social interactions

dc.contributor.authorAbril-de-Abreu, Rodrigo
dc.contributor.authorCruz, José
dc.contributor.authorOliveira, Rui Filipe
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-03T18:32:54Z
dc.date.available2015-09-03T18:32:54Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.description.abstractGroup living animals may eavesdrop on signalling interactions between conspecifics in order to collect adaptively relevant information obtained from others, without incurring in the costs of firsthand information acquisition. This ability (aka social eavesdropping) is expected to impact Darwinian fitness, and hence predicts the evolution of cognitive processes that enable social animals to use public information available in the environment. These adaptive specializations in cognition may have evolved both at the level of learning and memory mechanisms, and at the level of input mechanisms, such as attention, which select the information that is available for learning. Here we used zebrafish to test if attention in a social species is tuned to the exchange of information between conspecifics. Our results show that zebrafish are more attentive towards interacting (i.e. fighting) than towards non-interacting pairs of conspecifics, with the exposure to fighting not increasing activity or stress levels. Moreover, using video playbacks to manipulate form features of the fighting fish, we show that during the assessment phase of the fight, bystanders’ attention is more driven by form features of the interacting opponents; whereas during the post-resolution phase, it is driven by biological movement features of the dominant fish chasing the subordinate fish.por
dc.description.sponsorshipFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT); Champalimaud Neuroscience Programmepor
dc.identifier.citationScientific Reports, 5, Article 12678. doi: 10.1038/srep12678por
dc.identifier.doi10.1038/srep12678
dc.identifier.issn2045-2322
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.12/3919
dc.language.isoengpor
dc.peerreviewedyespor
dc.publisherNature Publishing Grouppor
dc.relationPROGRAMA GULBENKIAN CHAMPALIMAUD EM NEUROCIÊNCIAS, NEURONAL AND ENDOCRINE MECHANISMS UNDERLYING COGNITIVE APPRAISAL AND SOCIAL MODULATION OF BEHAVIOUR IN ZEBRAFISH DANIO RERIO
dc.relationComparative social cognition: zebrafish as a neurobehavioural model
dc.titleSocial eavesdropping in zebrafish: Tuning of attention to social interactionspor
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.awardTitlePROGRAMA GULBENKIAN CHAMPALIMAUD EM NEUROCIÊNCIAS, NEURONAL AND ENDOCRINE MECHANISMS UNDERLYING COGNITIVE APPRAISAL AND SOCIAL MODULATION OF BEHAVIOUR IN ZEBRAFISH DANIO RERIO
oaire.awardTitleComparative social cognition: zebrafish as a neurobehavioural model
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oaire.citation.conferencePlaceLondonpor
oaire.citation.endPage14por
oaire.citation.startPage1por
oaire.citation.titleScientific Reportspor
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project.funder.nameFundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
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