Cheese3D: sensitive detection and analysis of whole-face movement in mice
Irene Nozal Martin, Kyle Daruwalla, Linghua Zhang, Diana Naglic, Andrew Frankel, Yuhan Zhang, Catherine Rasgaitis, Xinyan Zhang, Zainab Ahmad, Xun Helen Hou · COSYNE 2025
Synchronous movements of the entire face, from grimacing to chewing, offer significant insights into internal states. Mice, with discernible facial responses and evolutionarily conserved mammalian facial movement control circuits, provide an ideal model to unravel the link between facial movement and internal physiological states in mammals. While complex facial movements are orchestrated synchronous activity of muscles spread throughout the face, existing frameworks lack the spatial or temporal resolution to sensitively track motion of the entire mouse face, due to its small and conical form
ePoster · Neuroscience