Tomohito Minakuchi

Mar 2, 2025 | biorxiv.org | Nancy Mack |Tomohito Minakuchi |Pauline Wonnenberg |Ken Igarza

AbstractIn naturalistic conditions, animals must routinely make ongoing self-motivated choices about whether to initiate interactions with same or opposite-sex partners and whether to re-initiate social contact when interactions have ended. However, it remains unclear what governs these choices, and whether they are motivated by drive states that exhibit signatures of moment-to-moment social satiety when these interactions have ended.