The functional neuroanatomy of the evolving parent–infant relationship

Parsons, Christine E.; Young, Katherine S.; Murray, Lynne; Stein, Alan; Kringelbach, Morten L.

doi:10.1016/j.pneurobio.2010.03.001

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“…The distributed neural network for face processing as described by Haxby et al (2000) and Senior (2003). Parsons et al (2010), Progress in Neurobiology. Berscheid, E., & Walster, E. (1974).…”

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Neural and behavioral responses to attractiveness in adult and infant faces

Hahn

Perrett

2014

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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Facial attractiveness provides a very powerful motivation for sexual and parental behavior. We therefore review the importance of faces to the study of neurobiological control of human reproductive motivations. For heterosexual individuals there is a common brain circuit involving the nucleus accumbens, the medial prefrontal, dorsal anterior cingulate and the orbitofrontal cortices that is activated more by attractive than unattractive faces, particularly for faces of the opposite sex. Behavioral studies indicate parallel effects of attractiveness on incentive salience or willingness to work to see faces. Both work/effort and brain activation to the sight of opposite sex attractiveness is more pronounced in men than women, perhaps reflecting the greater importance assigned to physical attractiveness by men when evaluating a potential mate. Studies comparing heterosexual and homosexual observers indicate the orbitofrontal cortex and mediodorsal thalamus are more activated by faces of the desired sex than faces of the less preferred sex, independent of observer gender or sexual orientation. Infant faces activate brain regions that partially overlap with those responsive to adult faces. Infant faces provide a powerful stimulus, which also elicits sex differences in behavior and brain responses that appear dependent on sex hormones. There are many facial dimensions affecting perceptions of attractiveness that remain unexplored in neuroimaging, and we conclude by suggesting that future studies combining parametric manipulation of face images, brain imaging, hormone assays and genetic polymorphisms in receptor sensitivity are needed to understand the neural and hormonal mechanisms underlying reproductive drives.3

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Neural and behavioral responses to attractiveness in adult and infant faces

Hahn

Perrett

2014

Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews

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“…Although subcortical structures appear similar to their adult forms at birth, the cerebral cortex is immature in terms of connectivity between and within regions, and it continues to develop into adulthood. According to Parson and colleagues (55), the timing and changes of connectivity during the course of development and their relationship to environmental factors (e.g., the important parent-child relationship) require much further exploration, including the obtaining of longitudinal structural information and more fine-grained temporal and spatial information about the functional neuroanatomy of infant brain activity.…”

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Rethinking the Concept of Psychosis and the Link Between Autism and Schizophrenia

Aggernæs

2015

Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology

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“…People tend to look at eyes for a disproportionate amount of time (Henderson, Williams, & Falk, 2005;Itier et al, 2007), likely because the eye region conveys salient information about emotion (Simon BaronCohen, Wheelwright, Hill, Raste, & Plumb, 2001;Calder et al, 2002), face recognition (Hood, Macrae, Cole-Davies, and Dias, 2003) and the target of attention (Frischen et al, 2007). Understanding gaze direction is a developmental precursor of TOM (Baron-Cohen, 2001;Parsons, Young, Murray, Stein, and Kringelbach, 2010;Senju and Csibra, 2008).…”

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Klausch

Pólya

2018

Journal of Media Psychology

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Shot scale in film, that is the apparent spatial distance of characters from the camera, is one of the most important compositional elements in a film shot guiding media audiences' attention. The primary aim of the present study was to investigate the extent to which apparent spatial distance of fictional characters can evoke theory of mind responding in film viewers. Theory of mind, referring to the capacity of attributing mental states to others, is considered fundamental in audiences' character involvement and narrative understanding, and it presumably mediates narrative effects. Four short animated movies were annotated for shot scale distribution and presented to participants (N = 52) in a within-subject design.Participants were asked to retell the story of the films and fill in questionnaires on narrative experience. Skin conductance was also measured during exposure. Story-descriptions were content analysed for theory of mind responses. In a Poisson-regression model average spatial

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The functional neuroanatomy of the evolving parent–infant relationship

Cited by 115 publications

References 273 publications

Neural and behavioral responses to attractiveness in adult and infant faces

Neural and behavioral responses to attractiveness in adult and infant faces

Rethinking the Concept of Psychosis and the Link Between Autism and Schizophrenia

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