New research reveals how smell and hearing interact in the brain to drive social behavior, using mouse maternal instincts as ...

New research reveals how smell and hearing interact in the brain during maternal behaviors like pup retrieval in mice.

malleus, incus and stapes), the inner ear (consisting of the cochlea and vestibular organs), the auditory nerve, the auditory cortex and other brain areas involved in sound processing.

Harbor Laboratory researchers have found that smell and sound signals merge in the mouse brain’s hearing center, influencing ...

Harbor Laboratory researchers revealed how the brain integrates smell and sound signals to guide maternal behaviors in mice.

Imagine you're at a dinner party, but you can't smell the food cooking or hear the dinner bell. Sounds like a dream, right?

Imagine you're at a dinner party, but you can't smell the food cooking or hear the dinner bell. Sounds like a dream, right? What if it wasn't?

When the cochlear nerve enters the brainstem, it innervates or supplies nerve signals to the cochlear nuclei located at the ... to the primary auditory (hearing) cortex of the brain for sound ...

it innervates or supplies nerve signals to the cochlear nuclei located at the pontomedullary junction (where the pons and medulla of the brainstem meet). The cochlear nerve exits the skull at the ...