Sex-Specific Automatic Responses to Infant Cries: TMS Reveals Greater Excitability in Females than Males in Motor Evoked Potentials

• Main Authors: Messina, Irene, Cattaneo, Luigi, Venuti, Paola, de Pisapia, Nicola, Serra, Mauro, Esposito, Gianluca, Rigo, Paola, Farneti, Alessandra, Bornstein, Marc H.
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: parenting; babycries
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84690; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/41968
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Neuroimaging reveals that infant cries activate parts of the premotor cortical system. To validate this effect in a more direct way, we used event-related transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS). Here, we investigated the presence and the time course of modulation of motor cortex excitability in you...