#1046 Olivia Reilly: Social Cognition and Sex Differences in the Brains of Capuchin Monkeys

Hello everybody, welcome to a new episode of the Decenter. I'm your host as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Dr. Olivia Riley. She's a postdoctoral fellow in the ACT lab at Harvard University. She studies social cognition in non-human primates and she uses a comparative approach to investigate the neural and hormonal.

correlates of social cognition and behavior and today we're focusing on social cognition in primates and we're going to talk a little bit about things like oxytocin, sex differences in the brain of capuchin monkeys and comparing them to humans and some other related topics. So Dr. Riley, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you one. Thank you so much and thank you for having me.

So to start off with, tell us a little bit about how you got interested, how and why you got interested in studying social cognition and primates. I mean, why primates specifically? Is there something special about them or is this just a personal interest of yours? I guess the best answer for me would be both. Primates have always been especially interesting to me, but also one of the reasons I think that primates, non-human primates, are particularly important to study social cognitive questions is because primates are, you know,

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