Representations of social experience in hippocampal circuits (opens in new tab)

For most mammals, the ability to form, maintain, retrieve, and reshape memories of social experience is essential for individual survival and cooperative behavior. Considerable recent progress has been made in understanding how the hippocampus forms internal representations of social experience, with the CA2 region having emerged as an important integrator of multiple socially relevant inputs. In this review we discuss recent studies exploring neural substrates of social recognition with a fo...