Peering into the Dynamics of Social Interactions: Measuring Play Fighting in Rats

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2013年1月18日

10.3791/4288-v

2013年1月18日

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Play fighting in the rat involves attack and defense of the nape of the neck, which if contacted, is gently nuzzled with the snout. Because the movements of one animal are countered by the actions of its partner, play fighting is a complex, dynamic interaction. This dynamic complexity raises methodological problems about what to score for experimental studies. We present a scoring schema that is sensitive to the correlated nature of the actions performed. Two experiments illustrate how these measurements can be used to d

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0:05

Title

1:42

Habituation

4:12

Behavioral Analysis: Assessing the Content of Play

5:20

Assessing the Content of Play: Defensive Tactics

10:42

Assessing the Content of Play: Attacks

12:53

Results: The Influence of the Cortex on Play Fighting

14:37

Conclusion

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