Lefevre Lab

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ERC Starting Grant · 2023

Oxytocin regulates marmosets’ affiliation and vocal communication

Primate social interactions rely heavily on visual and acoustic signalling. Yet little remains known about how social context affects how vocalisations are perceived and produced, and the neural mechanisms that support this this process. Given the complex dynamics that typify primate societies, addressing such questions remains of critical importance to elucidating the mysteries of the primate social brain. I hypothesize that oxytocin (OT), a neurohormone that regulates social behaviour and a promising therapeutic target for psychiatric disorders, influences context-dependent effects on primate vocal communication, notably by acting in higher order brain regions involved in vocalisations…

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