Revisión sistemática sobre investigaciones en modelos animales de cognición social

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Abstract: Since the 50s of the last century, a part of experimental psychology considered that it should know the brain and study the processing of information inside it and thus understand the causal mechanisms of behavior. Subsequently, the incorporation of theology and evolutionary biology to this new approach to comparative psychology gives rise to a new scientific branch of a multidisciplinary nature and in increasing expansion: the Science of Animal Cognition (Mateos, 2016).Social cognition is defined as a neurobiological, psychological and social process, which allows us to perceive, recognize and evaluate social events, and thus to build a representation of the environment in which individuals interact (Salas, 2017).The results of this research show that among the cases analyzed there is great affinity in the group members, finding that each community has respect for its leader in order to avoid conflicts. Most species work for the benefit of the whole in general; animals are loyal, protective and collaborative with their group members; this being the key factor that has been found in the theory of mind.