Specific maternal brain responses to their own child’s face : an fMRI meta-analysis

• Main Authors: Rigo, Paola, Kim, Pilyoung, Esposito, Gianluca, Putnick, Diane L., Venuti, Paola, Bornstein, Marc H.
• Other Authors: School of Social Sciences
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Social sciences::Psychology; Maternal Brain; Own Child
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/87185; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/49874
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

How special is her own child to a mother? Research that has focused on mothers’ brain responses to their own child has revealed the involvement of multiple subcortical and cortical brain regions, but less is known about which brain regions are systematically activated across these studies. This meta...