Topic: Pheromone signalling

Pheromone signalling regulates rodents’ social and reproductive behaviours. Learning and memorizing pheromone locations is a multimodal phenomenon since pheromones can be found on naturally occurring entities of various shapes and sizes in the environment. To investigate the neural basis of this behaviour, a pheromone place preference paradigm was developed, which required mice to use their olfactory and whisker systems to detect and memorize the pheromone locations. Female mice were trained to detect and learn the location of urinary volatiles from a chamber guarded by specific orifice sizes