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

Parsons, Christine E.; Young, Katherine S.; Mohseni, Hossein; Woolrich, Mark W.; Thomsen, Kristine Rømer; Joensson, Morten; Murray, Lynne; Goodacre, Tim; Stein, Alan; Kringelbach, Morten L.

doi:10.1080/17470919.2013.795189

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“…In two separate MEG studies of responses to infant facial stimuli, we observed rapid differential activity in the OFC in response to images of infant and adult faces [93,94]. Occurring at around 130 ms post-stimulus presentation, this differential processing is in line with the affective prediction hypothesis and is most likely pre-conscious in nature [95].…”

Section: An Early Role For the Ofc In Salience Detection Of Infant Cuessupporting

confidence: 68%

“…Occurring at around 130 ms post-stimulus presentation, this differential processing is in line with the affective prediction hypothesis and is most likely pre-conscious in nature [95]. In the second of these studies, we additionally demonstrated that early OFC responses to infant faces were disrupted by the presence of a minor facial abnormality [cleft lip; [94]]. This suggests that the specific configuration of infant facial features is critical for eliciting such early neural responses.…”

Section: An Early Role For the Ofc In Salience Detection Of Infant Cuessupporting

confidence: 60%

“…As the infant's perceptual and communicative skills change, parents automatically, unconsciously adapt their own interactive style, often referred to as 'intuitive parenting' [94]]. C-D) Differential cortical reactivity to infant and adult cry vocalisations was also observed in the OFC and temporal lobe regions, peaking around 130 ms [96].…”

Section: Experience-dependent Plasticity In the Parental Brainmentioning

confidence: 98%

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“…The availability of such information means that the stimuli can be used for many different purposes, dependent on experimenter requirements. For instance, the sounds have already been used to examine the neural processing of infant cues (Parsons et al, 2013a,b), detection of functionally important physical characteristics of vocalizations (Young et al, 2012) and movement in response to sound salience (Parsons et al, 2012). Other possibilities include investigation of physiological responses to the sound categories (e.g., infant sounds) or to the specific dimensions (e.g., high arousal sounds) independent of category.…”

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Introducing the Oxford Vocal (OxVoc) Sounds database: a validated set of non-acted affective sounds from human infants, adults, and domestic animals

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Sound moves us. Nowhere is this more apparent than in our responses to genuine emotional vocalizations, be they heartfelt distress cries or raucous laughter. Here, we present perceptual ratings and a description of a freely available, large database of natural affective vocal sounds from human infants, adults and domestic animals, the Oxford Vocal (OxVoc) Sounds database. This database consists of 173 non-verbal sounds expressing a range of happy, sad, and neutral emotional states. Ratings are presented for the sounds on a range of dimensions from a number of independent participant samples. Perceptions related to valence, including distress, vocalizer mood, and listener mood are presented in Study 1. Perceptions of the arousal of the sound, listener motivation to respond and valence (positive, negative) are presented in Study 2. Perceptions of the emotional content of the stimuli in both Study 1 and 2 were consistent with the predefined categories (e.g., laugh stimuli perceived as positive). While the adult vocalizations received more extreme valence ratings, rated motivation to respond to the sounds was highest for the infant sounds. The major advantages of this database are the inclusion of vocalizations from naturalistic situations, which represent genuine expressions of emotion, and the inclusion of vocalizations from animals and infants, providing comparison stimuli for use in cross-species and developmental studies. The associated website provides a detailed description of the physical properties of each sound stimulus along with cross-category descriptions.

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“…Subtracting activity from ERPs in response to adult faces from ERPs in response to infant faces, they found that the main sources of activation were likely generated by the left and right medial occipital/fusiform gyrus, the right uncus, the right medial orbito frontal gyrus, and the anterior cingulate cortex, which is consistent with fMRI studies that implicate these regions in parenting (Rutherford, Potenza, & Mayes, 2013). These findings suggest some promise in understanding potential neural generators of EEG as it relates to infant cue perception, though this question of which brain regions are recruited during processing of infant stimuli may be better served by techniques with either higher spatial resolution (e.g., fMRI) or with strengths in spatial as well as temporal resolution (e.g., magnetoencephalography or MEG; Kringelbach et al, 2008; Parsons et al, 2013). …”

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The Application of Electroencephalography to Investigate the Neural Bases of Parenting: A Review

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

Cited by 47 publications

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The neural basis of responsive caregiving behaviour: Investigating temporal dynamics within the parental brain

The neural basis of responsive caregiving behaviour: Investigating temporal dynamics within the parental brain

Introducing the Oxford Vocal (OxVoc) Sounds database: a validated set of non-acted affective sounds from human infants, adults, and domestic animals

The Application of Electroencephalography to Investigate the Neural Bases of Parenting: A Review

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