Yeah, I meant attention_2. My current theory is that oxytocin makes the mouse generally more attentive to sounds, regardless of whether it’s pup sounds, predator sounds, other adult mice, irrelevant background noise, anything. I just moved some text from Footnote 5 into the main text of the Theory 5 assessment elaborating on why I believe that.
I think you’re confused because you’re expecting my post to have a discussion of how pup-retrieval works, whereas my post is actually discussing more specifically the role of oxytocin neurons in primary auditory cortex. And my conclusion is that the latter is not playing a central role in the former. It’s involved, apparently, but it’s not centrally involved. The stars of the show are elsewhere in the brain, I claim, and they’re out-of-scope for this post.
(I have two guesses for why oxytocin-free auditory cortex reduces pup-retrieval in virgins. One involves the auditory cortex sending information / signals to brainstem inferior colliculus, and the other involves the auditory cortex sending information / signals to some subregion(s) within the amygdala or mPFC or ventral striatum. Again, it’s out-of-scope for this post.)
Yeah, I meant attention_2. My current theory is that oxytocin makes the mouse generally more attentive to sounds, regardless of whether it’s pup sounds, predator sounds, other adult mice, irrelevant background noise, anything. I just moved some text from Footnote 5 into the main text of the Theory 5 assessment elaborating on why I believe that.
I think you’re confused because you’re expecting my post to have a discussion of how pup-retrieval works, whereas my post is actually discussing more specifically the role of oxytocin neurons in primary auditory cortex. And my conclusion is that the latter is not playing a central role in the former. It’s involved, apparently, but it’s not centrally involved. The stars of the show are elsewhere in the brain, I claim, and they’re out-of-scope for this post.
(I have two guesses for why oxytocin-free auditory cortex reduces pup-retrieval in virgins. One involves the auditory cortex sending information / signals to brainstem inferior colliculus, and the other involves the auditory cortex sending information / signals to some subregion(s) within the amygdala or mPFC or ventral striatum. Again, it’s out-of-scope for this post.)