Behavioral mirroring in Wistar rats investigated through temporal pattern analysis.

ABSTRACT: The study of social interactions lies at the core of several disciplines such as psychiatry, psychology and ethology, just to name a few. In this context, understanding the temporal patterns underlying interactive behaviors is of crucial importance. Here, we employed T-pattern detection and analysis to study social interactions in ten pairs of Wistar rats tested in an Open-Field environment. We found four different categories of interactive behaviors. One of them was of particular interest to us because it consisted of behavioral events that, taken individually, should not underlie an interaction of any kind; however, they were included in T-patterns, which is suggestive of a dyadic temporal coordination in the behavioral expression of two individuals. Within this category, we described fo

SUBMITTER: Casarrubea M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11379692 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature