Inaudible components of the human infant cry influence haemodynamic responses in the breast region of mothers

• Main Authors: Doi, Hirokazu, Sulpizio, Simone, Esposito, Gianluca, Katou, Masahiro, Nishina, Emi, Iriguchi, Mayuko, Honda, Manabu, Oohashi, Tsutomu, Bornstein, Marc H, Shinohara, Kazuyuki
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology; Parenting; Infant
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/143592
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Distress vocalizations are fundamental for survival, and both sonic and ultrasonic components of such vocalizations are preserved phylogenetically among many mammals. On this basis, we hypothesized that ultrasonic inaudible components of the acoustic signal might play a heretofore hidden role in hum...