Encoding of social exploration by neural ensembles in the insular cortex

• Isamu Miura ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Isamu Miura, Masaaki Sato

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliations RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Saitama, Japan, Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5231-5862

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• Masaaki Sato ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Isamu Miura, Masaaki Sato

  Roles Conceptualization, Project administration, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Current address: Department of Neuropharmacology, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Kita, Sapporo, Japan

  Affiliations RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Saitama, Japan, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Sakura, Saitama, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5206-3375

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• Eric T. N. Overton,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Saitama, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7191-9047

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• Nobuo Kunori,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliations RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Saitama, Japan, The National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan

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• Junichi Nakai,

  Roles Project administration

  Affiliations Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Sakura, Saitama, Japan, Division of Oral Physiology, Department of Oral Function and Morphology, Tohoku University Graduate School of Dentistry, Aoba, Sendai, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9963-2603

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• Takakazu Kawamata,

  Roles Project administration

  Affiliation Department of Neurosurgery, Tokyo Women’s Medical University, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

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• Nobuhiro Nakai,

  Roles Supervision, Validation

  Affiliations RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Saitama, Japan, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Kobe University School of Medicine, Chuo, Kobe, Japan

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• Toru Takumi

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: takumit@med.kobe-u.ac.jp

  Affiliations RIKEN Brain Science Institute, Wako, Saitama, Japan, Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Saitama University, Sakura, Saitama, Japan, Department of Physiology and Cell Biology, Kobe University School of Medicine, Chuo, Kobe, Japan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7153-266X

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