Female mice can learn to respond to distress calls from young mice — an ability that has now been found to be improved through signalling by the hormone oxytocin in the left auditory cortex of the brain. See Article p.499
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Liu, R. The yin and yang of cortical oxytocin. Nature 520, 444–445 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature14386
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