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An automated two-choice social operant task for probing moment-to-moment changes in social satiety.

Nancy R Mack, Tomohito Minakuchi, Ken Igarza, Pauline Wonnenberg, Stefan N Oline, Annegret L Falkner

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Article in iScience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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6 authors.

Nancy R MackPrinceton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA.
Tomohito MinakuchiPrinceton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA.
Ken IgarzaPrinceton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA.
Pauline WonnenbergPrinceton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA.
Stefan N OlinePrinceton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA.
Annegret L FalknerPrinceton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton, NJ 08540, USA.

Funding

Mapping experience-dependent change in a circuit for aggressionR01MH126035 · NIMH · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI FALKNER, ANNEGRET LEA · 2021 to 2025
$2.6M
Decoding the specificity of social drivesF32MH136673 · NIMH · PRINCETON UNIVERSITY · PI Nancy Rose Mack · 2024 to 2026
$239k
NIMH NIH HHS F32 MH136673NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH126035
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Abstract

Animals routinely make self-motivated choices about whether to initiate interactions with same- or opposite-sex partners. However, it remains unclear whether these choices are motivated by drive states that exhibit signatures of moment-to-moment social satiety. To test this, we designed a fully automated two-choice social operant paradigm where mice can choose between same- and opposite-sex social rewards that are delivered for interaction with systematically varying durations. We find that although both males and females have stable choice biases, only males exhibit behavioral signatures of moment-to-moment social satiety. Using a simple normative model to capture patterns of social choice, we observe that behavior is better fit by a model with a single social drive and choice bias, rather than a model with independent drives for same- and opposite-sex interactions. Together, our data reveal behavioral signatures of social satiety and offer insights into the underlying homeostatic and motivational drives that govern social choices.

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PMID41399505
PMCPMC12702244

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