Duration of motherhood has incremental effects on mothers’ neural processing of infant vocal cues: a neuroimaging study of women

Abstract The transition to motherhood, and the resultant experience of caregiving, may change the way women respond to affective, infant signals in their environments. Nonhuman animal studies have robustly demonstrated that mothers process both infant and other salient signals differently from nonmo...

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Main Authors: Christine E. Parsons, Katherine S. Young, Mikkel V. Petersen, Else-Marie Jegindoe Elmholdt, Peter Vuust, Alan Stein, Morten L. Kringelbach
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-01776-3