Breastfeeding is linked with greater maternal responses to her own infant cry in brain regions important for caregiving behaviors and empathy at 1 month after delivery. The levels of activation seen at 1 month postpartum are correlated with maternal sensitivity measured at 3–4 months postpartum.
infants were habituated to either a face with a neutral expression or the same face with a smile. Infants of nondepressed mothers subsequently discriminated between neutral and smiling facial expressions, whereas infants of clinically depressed mothers failed to make the same discrimination
The purpose of the present study was to clarify the effect of mastication on cognitive processing using RT and ERPs. --- Mastication influences cognitive processing time as reflected by RT and the latency of ERP waveforms.
Our results and previous studies suggest that the parietal cortex is involved not only in measuring numerical quantities, but also in choosing a numerically larger/smaller quantity among the categories of choice. Potentials and limitations of NIRS were discussed.
We investigated whether Japanese monkeys can discriminate pictures of conspecific males and females using a visual paired comparison (VPC) task. Whole-body pictures of adult and nonadult monkeys were used as stimuli.
This article documents the development of a new measure--the Child Attachment Interview (CAI)--which seeks to bridge measurement gap among well-established attachment measures for infancy, early childhood, and adulthood.