Integration of olfactory and auditory cues eliciting parental behavior

Parental care is crucial for the survival of all mammalian species. Given the evolutionary importance of parenting, this behavioral repertoire must be supported by circuitry that is innate but also capable of learning and flexibility – adjusting to changing environmental demands. In rodents, parenta...

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Published inJournal of neuroendocrinology Vol. 35; no. 7; pp. e13307 - n/a
Main Authors McRae, Briana R., Andreu, Valentine, Marlin, Bianca Jones
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.07.2023
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auditory
Behavior
Caregivers
maternal behavior
multisensory
Neural networks
Offspring
olfaction
Olfactory stimuli
Parental behavior
Sensory stimuli
olfaction
multisensory
parental behavior
maternal behavior
auditory
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Summary:Parental care is crucial for the survival of all mammalian species. Given the evolutionary importance of parenting, this behavioral repertoire must be supported by circuitry that is innate but also capable of learning and flexibility – adjusting to changing environmental demands. In rodents, parental care is triggered by the perception of cues emitted by a pup. Caregiver‐pup interactions are often composed of multimodal sensory stimuli that require caregivers to integrate across sensory modalities. In this review, we focus on two sensory modalities essential for the parental experience: smell and hearing. We examine how smell and hearing are combined with other senses to identify offspring in need of care. Understanding how multimodal stimuli are integrated in the caregiver brain to inform parental behavior is an important step in understanding the circuitry that underlies this complex and crucial behavioral repertoire. In this review, we will discuss recent advances in the field of rodent parental behavior, highlighting studies that have begun to disentangle the neural circuitry that processes the multisensory cues that are involved in caregiver‐offspring interactions. Multisensory cues involved in parental behavior. Parent‐offspring interactions in rodents involve a combination of olfactory, auditory, gustatory, visual, and somatosensory cues. Auditory and olfactory cues (blue) are the focus of this review.
Bibliography:Briana R. McRae and Valentine Andreu contributed equally to the study.
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ISSN:0953-8194
1365-2826
DOI:10.1111/jne.13307