Gheusi G, Bluthé R M, Goodall G, Dantzer R
Neurobiologie Intégrative, Inserm Unité 394, 1 rue Camille Saint-Saëns, 33077 Bordeaux, France.
Behav Processes. 1994 Dec;33(1-2):59-87. doi: 10.1016/0376-6357(94)90060-4. Epub 2002 May 31.
What animals know about each other, and how they construct and use knowledge of their social world involves at least an ability to recognise different social categories. Although much evidence has accumulated that animals are able to identify and classify other individuals into different categories, few studies have definitively demonstrated true individual recognition, i.e. discrimination between individuals on the basis of their idiosyncratic characteristics. Furthermore, the neural structures and pathways involved in social and, a fortiori, individual recognition have as yet been poorly investigated. This paper discusses various methods and measures currently used to assess different forms of social categorisations in animals, with special reference to rodents. Recent progress concerning the neurobiological bases involved in social recognition is also discussed. Finally, integrative perspectives for studying individual recognition in the context of social cognition is underlined in relation to different approaches investigating rodents' ability to use learned olfactory information.
动物对彼此的了解，以及它们如何构建和运用关于其社会世界的知识，至少涉及一种识别不同社会类别的能力。尽管已有大量证据表明动物能够识别并将其他个体归入不同类别，但很少有研究能确切证明真正的个体识别，即基于个体独特特征对个体进行区分。此外，参与社会识别以及更不用说个体识别的神经结构和通路，目前仍研究不足。本文讨论了目前用于评估动物不同形式社会分类的各种方法和措施，特别提及了啮齿动物。还讨论了社会识别所涉及的神经生物学基础方面的最新进展。最后，结合研究啮齿动物利用习得嗅觉信息能力的不同方法，强调了在社会认知背景下研究个体识别的综合观点。
