Sensory input during social behaviors
The goal of this project is to understand social behaviours of rodents such as mating and territorial aggression, with a focus on the (sensory) inputs relevant for these behaviors – ranging from vision to chemoreception. The project has been triggered by a recent observation that mice close their eyes when a conspecific is within close distance (Meyer et al, bioRxiv 2020). By combining experimental manipulations with computational modeling we hope to understand whether this observation reflects overt sensory modality switching.
Collaborators
- John O’Keefe (SWC, London)
- Yoh Isogai (SWC, London)
Relevant publications
Two distinct types of eye-head coupling in freely moving mice
Meyer AF, O’Keefe J, Poort J
Current Biology (accepted)
(bioRxiv preprint)