Science
Social novelty has a special place in the brain. – Brinkwire
In a study published in the journal Nature, researchers at the RIKEN Center for Brain Science (CBS) in Japan report that a part of the mouse brain called the SuM is specialized for detecting new experiences. Within the SuM, responses to experiences related to unknown individualscalled social noveltywere segregated from those related to unfamiliar placescalled context noveltybefore being sent to distinct parts of the brain’s main memory-formation center. This discovery can help us understand norm…
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