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Published in final edited form as: Neuron. 2020 Jul 13;107(5):941–953.e7. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.06.020

Figure 5. dmPFC neurons encode a sex preference state.

Figure 5.

(A, C) Average population response, measured as the Mahalanobis distance between trial response vectors and baseline (see Methods) for male- and female-preferring animals evoked during male or female interaction (mean ± SEM).

(B, D) Average responses in (A) and (C) quantified over the first 10 seconds of interaction (mean ± SEM, Mann-Whitney U test, p = 1.26e-4, n = 46 male bouts and n = 42 female bouts (b), p = 0.0195, n = 60 male bouts and n = 66 female bouts (D)).

(E) Schematic showing how the relative strength of sex-specific responses predicts individual sex preference.

***p<0.001, *p < 0.05.

See also Figure S4.