Original ResearchPublished 20 August 2026Oxytocin specifically participates in social memory encoding by exciting stellate neurons in the lateral entorhinal cortexJinquan Wang · Feng Cai · Qi Zhu · Zijian Song · Hao Zhang · Haiyan Wang · Jiaxiang Duan · Hua Huang · Yi XuFrontiers in Behavioral Neurosciencedoi 10.3389/fnbeh.2026.1834610