Topic: individual recognition

Mice are territorial animals whose spatial navigation ability relies on integrating multiple stimuli from various sensory modalities. Among all these types of information, the pattern of major urinary proteins contained in the urine landmarks provide the identity of the conspecific owner of each territory, constituting the “who” component of episodic memory. We identified a neuroanatomical pathway responsible for integrating individual recognition information into the complex socio-spatial memories stored within the hippocampus. Within this pathway, the posteromedial cortical amygdaloid nucleu