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Study shows lightning quick recognition of a baby's cry
16.12.2015 | Hella Kastbjerg
Christine Parsons
Christine Parsons, assistant professor at Center for Music in the Brain jointly co-authored a new paper together with Katherine Young from UCLA, examining just how fast the brain can distinguish a baby's cry.
Adults' brains were found to react differently to babies as quickly as 100-200 milliseconds after hearing the sound. This brain activity might help to tag babies cries as something special, a kind of brain 'caregiving response'.
The work is the first of this kind to use a time-sensitive brain imaging technique, magnetoencephalography, carried out by Prof. Morten Kringelbach's research group at Aarhus University.