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2018, Number 4

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Rev Mex Neuroci 2018; 19 (4)

Neurobiology of the perception of social hierarchies: current revision of the literature

Rizo MLE

Language: Spanish
References: 53
Page: 62-70
PDF size: 197.53 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Social hierarchies and their perception are a mechanism of fundamental social organization in many animal species, including human, which has a profound impact on aspects such as survival, social and reproductive behavior and health. Social dominance implies, among other things, the control of some individuals over the other members of the group, as well as greater access to resources. Considering that, from the evolutionary point of view, the social development and the cognitive and emotional processes related to this function are closely related to the development of the brain, the objective of the present review is to describe the neurobiological mechanisms involved in the perception of the hierarchy social, emphasizing the main experimental findings reported.


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