Brain processes in women and men in response to emotive sounds

• Main Authors: Rigo, Paola, De Pisapia, Nicola, Bornstein, Marc H., Putnick, Diane L., Serra, Mauro, Esposito, Gianluca, Venuti, Paola
• Other Authors: School of Humanities and Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Emotive sounds; Default mode network
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/84976; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/42038
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Adult appropriate responding to salient infant signals is vital to child healthy psychological development. Here we investigated how infant crying, relative to other emotive sounds of infant laughing or adult crying, captures adults’ brain resources. In a sample of nulliparous women and men, we inve...