Probabilistic modeling reveals coordinated social interaction states and their multisensory bases.

ABSTRACT: Social behavior across animal species ranges from simple pairwise interactions to thousands of individuals coordinating goal-directed movements. Regardless of the scale, these interactions are governed by the interplay between multimodal sensory information and the internal state of each animal. Here, we investigate how animals use multiple sensory modalities to guide social behavior in the highly social zebrafish (Danio rerio) and uncover the complex features of pairwise interactions early in development. To identify distinct behaviors and understand how they vary over time, we developed a new hidden Markov model with constrained linear-model emissions to automatically classify states of coordinated interaction, using the movements of one animal to predict those of another. We disc

SUBMITTER: Josephine Stednitz S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11312628 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature