Topic: social sensory cues

Social behaviors result from processing social cues (sensory cues from a partner) and producing actions relative to both the other’s behavior and one’s own internal state. How these two (social sensory cues and internal states) come together to drive behavior on a moment-to-moment basis is not yet clear. Here we fill this gap focusing on social interactions in Drosophila melanogaster. During courtship, males chase females and sing; female responses to male cues serve as critical feedback signals that shape the male’s ongoing behavior (Coen et al. 2014). In addition, we know that internal state