Fellowship of the fin: Fish empathy and oxytocin.

Autor: Reddon AR; School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, James Parsons Building, Byrom Street, Liverpool, L3 3AF, UK. a.r.reddon@ljmu.ac.uk., Swaney WT; School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, James Parsons Building, Byrom Street, Liverpool, L3 3AF, UK.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Learning & behavior [Learn Behav] 2024 Jun; Vol. 52 (2), pp. 135-136. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Jul 05.
DOI: 10.3758/s13420-023-00593-1
Abstrakt: Zebrafish exhibit fear contagion, a basic form of empathy, and when observing social fellows that have been exposed to predation cues, will themselves exhibit similar distress behaviours. As in mammals, the nonapeptide hormone oxytocin is essential for this empathic response, and homologous areas of the brain are involved, suggesting that the mechanistic basis of empathy may be conserved among vertebrates.
(© 2023. The Psychonomic Society, Inc.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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