Lenca Cuturela

This study examines how early and adolescent adversity differently affect emotional contagion in rats, finding distinct effects on observer-to-demonstrator and demonstrator-to-observer emotional transfer, with sex-specific pathways.

The paper shows that observing aggression leads to neural and behavioral changes similar to direct experience, with shared plasticity mechanisms in aggression-related networks.

The paper uses a dynamic latent state model to analyze mice learning a visual decision-making task, finding distinct internal states emerge early in training.