A voice only a mom could love: New insight into maternal auditory cortex plasticity

Thursday, June 11, 2009 - 07:57 in Biology & Nature

A recent study reveals changes specific to the mother mouse brain that may improve the detection of isolation calls from a mouse baby. The research, published by Cell Press in the 11th June issue of the journal Neuron, provides fascinating new insight into how call-evoked neural inhibition plays a key role in the brain's representation of this important communication vocalisation...

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