Continuous monitoring and machine vision reveals that developing gerbils exhibit structured social behaviors prior to the emergence of autonomy

• Catalin Mitelut ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Catalin Mitelut, Marielisa Diez Castro

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mitelutco@gmail.com

  Affiliations Netholabs, London, United Kingdom, Center for Neural Science, Department of Biology and Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0471-9816

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• Marielisa Diez Castro ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Catalin Mitelut, Marielisa Diez Castro

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Neural Science, Department of Biology and Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Ralph E. Peterson,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Neural Science, Department of Biology and Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Maria Gonçalves,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation Center for Neural Science, Department of Biology and Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Jennifer Li,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation

  Affiliation Center for Neural Science, Department of Biology and Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Madeline Gamer,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization

  Affiliation Center for Neural Science, Department of Biology and Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Simon RO Nilsson,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Software

  Affiliation Center for Neural Science, Department of Biology and Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Talmo D. Pereira ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software

  ¶‡ TDP and DHS are co-last authors on this work.

  Affiliation Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California, United States of America

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• Dan H. Sanes

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ TDP and DHS are co-last authors on this work.

  Affiliation Center for Neural Science, Department of Biology and Department of Psychology, New York University, New York, New York, United States of America

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