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Abstract：
The social transmission of food preference, a rudimentary form of social learning, has primarily been studied in pairs of adult rodents. Here, we present a protocol to explore the parent-offspring context in social learning using an adaptation of this classic paradigm for rodent dam-pup dyads. We describe steps for studying weanling mice from the same mother and present a worked example using weight-based (food consumption) and time-based (exploration) indices of social learning.
摘要：
食物偏好的社会传播，一种社会学习的基本形式，主要在成对的成年啮齿动物中进行了研究。这里,我们提出了一个协议，使用对啮齿动物dam-pupdyads的经典范式的改编来探索社会学习中的亲子关系。我们描述了研究来自同一母亲的断奶小鼠的步骤，并使用基于体重（食物消耗）和基于时间（探索）的社交学习指数提供了一个可行的示例。
