Innate and plastic mechanisms in auditory cortex for maternal behavior

• Published in: Nature (London) Vol. 587; no. 7834; pp. 426 - 431
• Main Authors: Schiavo, Jennifer K., Valtcheva, Silvana, Bair-Marshall, Chloe J., Song, Soomin C., Martin, Kathleen A., Froemke, Robert C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 07.10.2020

Infant cries evoke powerful responses in parents 1 – 4 . To what extent are parental animals intrinsically sensitive to neonatal vocalizations, or might instead learn about vocal cues for parenting responses? In mice, pup-naive virgins do not recognize the meaning of pup distress calls, but retrieve...