Immediate and selective maternal brain responses to own infant faces

• Main Authors: Valenzi, S., Islam, T., Mash, C., Bornstein, M.H., Esposito, Gianluca
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Mother–infant interaction; Infant face
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84103; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/41645
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Infant faces elicit caregiving in adults. In previous research on brain responses to images of infant faces, the faces were unknown to participants. This study investigated EEG in primiparous mothers of 3- to 6-month-old infants viewing their own infant's face compared to an unfamiliar but appe...