Fig. 9: Environmental effects on sensory behavior. | Nature Communications

Fig. 9: Environmental effects on sensory behavior.

From: Differential impacts of social isolation and enriched environment on multi-sensory brain-wide functionality and network segregation

Fig. 9

a The visual contrast, as measured by the optomotor test, showed no group differences across the three contrast conditions b The object preference test shows that the EG had a higher preference for the visual (V) object than the SS. There was no significant difference between groups in their preference for the tactile (T) object or the combined visual and tactile (V & T) object. c SS failed to show olfactory habituation responses, indicating impaired olfactory function compared to the EG. d The hot plate test showed no significant difference in tactile pain sensitivity between groups. e SG exhibited greater locomotion in the open field than the other groups. f Anxiety levels, as assessed by the elevated plus maze test, showed that SS exhibited greater anxiety than EG. g Interactive behavior exhibited exhibited that SS showed more nose-to-nose contact behavior than SG. Data are presented as mean ± SEM (Kruskal-Wallis test corrected with Dunn’s test; *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01). Note that the sample size for behavioral measures (a) through (e) was n = 12 per group, while measures (f) and (g) used n = 8 per group. The mouse image used is from TogoTV (© 2016 DBCLS TogoTV, CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Source data are provided as a Source Data file.

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