Protocol for quantitative assessment of social cooperation in mice

Evolution and neural representation of mammalian cooperative behavior

“…For example, the cooperative ability of macaques has been demonstrated by the cooperative pulling paradigm in which two individuals are required to pull simultaneously in order to receive a food reward (Chalmeau and Gallo, 1995;Hirata and Fuwa, 2007;Molesti and Majolo, 2016;Tomlin et al, 2006;Suchak et al, 2018). Elephants, dolphins, and rodents have also been used in temporal coordination studies (Choe et al, 2017;Avital et al, 2016;qopuch and Popik, 2011;Wood et al, 2016;Schuster, 2002;Plotnik et al, 2011;Jaakkola et al, 2018;Shin and Ko, 2021;Han et al, 2020). Hence temporal coordination tasks represent a promising means for investigating cross-species similarities and differences in cooperative behaviors.…”