Sex- and social context-dependent differences in mice fine head movement during social interactions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Social decision-making is influenced by multiple factors such as age, sex, emotional state, and the individual's social environment. While various behavioural readouts have been commonly used to study social behaviour in rodents, the role of fine head movements during social interactions remains underexplored despite the presence of accelerometers in many electrophysiological recording systems.

Results

Here, we used head acceleration data to analyse head movement kinematics in adult male and female mice across several social discrimination tests in various time scales. Our findings demonstrate the complementary nature of two variables derived from the raw acceleration, namely overall static (OSHA) and dynamic (ODHA) head acceleration, as well as specific head angl

SUBMITTER: Phalip A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11927281 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature