Project/scholarship details
- Project/scholarship ID
118776
- Reference
PTDC/PSI-PCO/118776/2010
- FundRef URI
- Funder
FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P.
- Funder's country
Portugal
- Funding program
3599-PPCDT
- Funding amount
100,000.00 €
- Start date
2012-03-01
- End date
2015-08-31
Documents
Social competence: an evolutionary approach
Taborsky, Barbara; Oliveira, Rui Filipe'Social competence' refers to the ability of an individual to optimise its social behaviour depending on available social information. Although such ability will enhance social interactions and thus raise Darwinian fitness, its evolutionary and ecological significance has been largely ignored. Social competence is based on behavioural flexibility. We propose that the study of social competence requires an integ...
Mind the fish: zebrafish as a model in cognitive social neuroscience
Oliveira, Rui F.Understanding how the brain implements social behavior on one hand, and how social processes feedback on the brain to promote fine-tuning of behavioral output according to changes in the social environment is a major challenge in contemporary neuroscience. A critical step to take this challenge successfully is finding the appropriate level of analysis when relating social to biological phenomena. Given the enor...
Social eavesdropping in zebrafish: Tuning of attention to social interactions
Abril-de-Abreu, Rodrigo; Cruz, José; Oliveira, Rui FilipeGroup 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 informatio...
Audience effects and aggressive priming in agonistic behaviour of male zebrafis...
Cruz, Ana S.; Oliveira, Rui FilipeAnimals communicate through the exchange of signals. However, third-party individuals can detect and intercept signals not directly sent to them, a phenomenon known as eavesdropping, and the presence of bystanders can influence the signalling behaviour of interacting conspecifics, a phenomenon named the audience effect. So far, research done on audience effects and eavesdropping has been mainly focused on their...
Social dominance modulates eavesdropping in zebrafish
Abril-de-Abreu, Rodrigo; Cruz, Ana S.; Oliveira, Rui FilipeGroup living animals may eavesdrop on signalling interactions between conspecifics and integrate it with their own past social experience in order to optimize the use of relevant information from others. However, little is known about this interplay between public (eavesdropped) and private social information. To investigate it, we first manipulated the dominance status of bystander zebrafish. Next, we either a...
Brain transcriptomic response to social eavesdropping in zebrafish (Danio rerio)
Lopes, Joao Sollari; Abril-de-Abreu, Rodrigo; Oliveira, Rui FilipePublic information is widely available at low cost to animals living in social groups. For instance, bystanders may eavesdrop on signaling interactions between conspecifics and use it to adapt their subsequent behavior towards the observed individuals. This social eavesdropping ability is expected to require specialized mechanisms such as social attention, which selects social information available for learning...
Social dominance modulates eavesdropping in zebrafish
Abril-de-Abreu, Rodrigo; Cruz, Ana S.; Oliveira, Rui F.Group living animals may eavesdrop on signalling interactions between conspecifics and integrate it with their own past social experience in order to optimize the use of relevant information from others. However, little is known about this interplay between public (eavesdropped) and private social information. To investigate it, we first manipulated the dominance status of bystander zebrafish. Next, we either a...
Social Eavesdropping in Zebrafish: Tuning of Attention to Social Interactions
Abril-de-Abreu, Rodrigo; Cruz, José; Oliveira, Rui F.Group 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 first-hand 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 informati...
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