Researchers from the Center for Cognition and Sociality (CCS) within the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) recently announced the discovery of neurons that allow us to recognize others. The research team discovered that the neurons that deal with the information associated with different individuals are located in the CA1 region of the hippocampus.
Social animals, including humans, constantly engage in interactions with others. In this process, the ability to recognize the identity of the social counterpart, retrieve relevant information about them from memory, and update it from the current interaction is critical for establishing social relationships. However, there has been limited research on how these processes occur in the brain.
In order to answer this question, past efforts mostly focused on mouse brain studies, particularly in the hippocampus. The hippocampus was thought to…
