How the brain interprets social cues: study on mother mice found that the brain interprets social cues by merging smell signals with incoming sound signals, influencing the animal's response to future sounds like pups' cries. Blocking maternal smell signals eliminated their pup retrieval response

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study on mother mice found that the brain interprets social cues by merging smell signals with incoming sound signals, influencing the animal's response to future sounds like pups' cries. Blocking maternal smell signals eliminated their pup retrieval response submitted by /u/giuliomagnifico
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