Dynamic behavior of the auditory N100 elicited by a baby's cry

Purhonen, Maija; Pääkkönen, Ari; Yppärilä, Heidi; Lehtonen, Johannes; Karhu, Jari

doi:10.1016/s0167-8760(01)00139-8

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“…For example, it has been shown by event-related brain potential studies that auditory attention requires some of the parent response regions such as anterior cingulate and temporal cortices (Tzourio et al, 1997). However, in another study using similar techniques, women responded significantly more to a baby cry than to an emotionally neutral vocalization in these regions (Purhonen et al, 2001b); in a third study, mothers responded more than control women to infant cries (Purhonen et al, 2001a). These results suggest that increases in the mother’s alertness and arousal toward baby signals may function to assist the mother her ability to be continuously alert or attuned to the infant’s needs.…”

Section: Parental Brains and Baby Cry Stimulimentioning

confidence: 91%

The human parental brain: In vivo neuroimaging

Swain

2011

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

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Interacting parenting thoughts and behaviors, supported by key brain circuits, critically shape human infants’ current and future behavior. Indeed, the parent–infant relationship provides infants with their first social environment, forming templates for what they can expect from others, how to interact with them and ultimately how they go on to themselves to be parents. This review concentrates on magnetic resonance imaging experiments of the human parent brain, which link brain physiology with parental thoughts and behaviors. After reviewing brain imaging techniques, certain social cognitive and affective concepts are reviewed, including empathy and trust—likely critical to parenting. Following that is a thorough study-by-study review of the state-of-the-art with respect to human neuroimaging studies of the parental brain—from parent brain responses to salient infant stimuli, including emotionally charged baby cries and brief visual stimuli to the latest structural brain studies. Taken together, this research suggests that networks of highly conserved hypothalamic–midbrain–limbic–paralimbic–cortical circuits act in concert to support parental brain responses to infants, including circuits for limbic emotion response and regulation. Thus, a model is presented in which infant stimuli activate sensory analysis brain regions, affect corticolimbic limbic circuits that regulate emotional response, motivation and reward related to their infant, ultimately organizing parenting impulses, thoughts and emotions into coordinated behaviors as a map for future studies. Finally, future directions towards integrated understanding of the brain basis of human parenting are outlined with profound implications for understanding and contributing to long term parent and infant mental health.

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Section: Parental Brains and Baby Cry Stimulimentioning

confidence: 91%

The human parental brain: In vivo neuroimaging

Swain

2011

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

206

162

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“…While a number of factors in adults, such as being a parent (Proverbio, Brignone, Matarazzo, Del Zotto, & Zani, 2006;Purhonen, Pääkkönen, Yppärilä, Lehtonen, & Karhu, 2001;Seifritz et al, 2003) and psychiatric disturbance (Laurent & Ablow, 2012;Schechter et al, 2011), have been shown to impact on brain responses to infant cues, it is likely that infant characteristics are equally important. Facial anomalies, such as cleft lip, where the structure deviates from the normal configuration, provide a window to understanding characteristics of the infant that can shape interactions with a caregiver or other adult.…”

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Minor structural abnormalities in the infant face disrupt neural processing: A unique window into early caregiving responses

Parsons

Young

Mohseni

et al. 2013

Social Neuroscience

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Infant faces elicit early, specific activity in the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), a key cortical region for reward and affective processing. A test of the causal relationship between infant facial configuration and OFC activity is provided by naturally occurring disruptions to the face structure. One such disruption is cleft lip, a small change to one facial feature, shown to disrupt parenting. Using magnetoencephalography, we investigated neural responses to infant faces with cleft lip compared with typical infant and adult faces. We found activity in the right OFC at 140 ms in response to typical infant faces but diminished activity to infant faces with cleft lip or adult faces. Activity in the right fusiform face area was of similar magnitude for typical adult and infant faces but was significantly lower for infant faces with cleft lip. This is the first evidence that a minor change to the infant face can disrupt neural activity potentially implicated in caregiving.

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“…This has included ERP studies examining very early perceptual processing of infant vocalizations and facial expressions, namely the N100 and N170. With respect to infant cry perception, maternal and non-maternal samples have been exposed to infant cry and control (i.e., a word) stimuli, and the N100 elicited by these stimuli was modulated by both the nature of the stimulus (cry vs. word) and maternal status (mother vs. non-mother; (Purhonen, Kilpeläinen-Lees, et al, 2001; Purhonen, Valkonen-Korhonen, & Lehtonen, 2008)). Further, with respect to early face perception, the N170 elicited by infant faces has also showed differences by maternal status (Proverbio, Brignone, Matarazzo, Del Zotto, & Zani, 2006).…”

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Parental reflective functioning and the neural correlates of processing infant affective cues

Rutherford

Maupin

Landi

et al. 2016

Social Neuroscience

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Parental reflective functioning refers to the capacity for a parent to understand their own and their infant’s mental states, and how these mental states relate to behavior. Higher levels of parental reflective functioning may be associated with greater sensitivity to infant emotional signals in fostering adaptive and responsive caregiving. We investigated this hypothesis by examining associations between parental reflective functioning and neural correlates of infant face and cry perception using event-related potentials (ERPs) in a sample of recent mothers. We found both early and late ERPs were associated with different components of reflective functioning. These findings suggest that parental reflective functioning may be associated with the neural correlates of infant cue perception and further support the value of enhancing reflective functioning as a mechanism in parenting intervention programs.

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Dynamic behavior of the auditory N100 elicited by a baby's cry

Cited by 23 publications

References 12 publications

The human parental brain: In vivo neuroimaging

The human parental brain: In vivo neuroimaging

Minor structural abnormalities in the infant face disrupt neural processing: A unique window into early caregiving responses

Parental reflective functioning and the neural correlates of processing infant affective cues

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