Parenting: How caregiving experience refines sensory integration

Anita E Autry

doi:10.1016/j.cub.2024.11.032

Parenting: How caregiving experience refines sensory integration

Curr Biol. 2025 Jan 6;35(1):R24-R26. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.11.032.

Author

Anita E Autry¹

Affiliation

¹ Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA; Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY 10461, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 39765214
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2024.11.032

Abstract

Pup odors and vocalizations integrate in the auditory cortex. A new study reveals that odor information is relayed to the auditory cortex by the basal amygdala and the activity of this projection enhances sound responses in females with pup experience.

MeSH terms

Amygdala / physiology
Animals
Auditory Cortex* / physiology
Auditory Perception / physiology
Female
Humans
Odorants
Vocalization, Animal / physiology