“…Since many studies using the intruder-resident paradigm adopt a general "social behavior" category (1,6,9,11,17), which includes a diversity of behaviors that may, in fact, be characterized as social but not necessarily related to social investigation (e.g., mild aggression, rolling/standing over the juvenile and/or pushing it away, dominance, social grooming), their potential to detect social recognition memory may have been limited, as exemplified in the present study by the different statistical results when comparing social behaviors and social investigatory behaviors. In fact, some prior studies excluded aggressive behavior from the "social behavior" category (4,7,10,18).…”