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Tottenham, Nim; Shapiro, Mor; Telzer, Eva H.; Humphreys, Kathryn L. – Developmental Science, 2012
In altricial species, like the human, the caregiver, very often the mother, is one of the most potent stimuli during development. The distinction between mothers and other adults is learned early in life and results in numerous behaviors in the child, most notably mother-approach and stranger wariness. The current study examined the influence of…
Descriptors: Stimuli, Mothers, Brain, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Arsalidou, Marie; Barbeau, Emmanuel J.; Bayless, Sarah J.; Taylor, Margot J. – Brain and Cognition, 2010
We encounter many faces each day but relatively few are personally familiar. Once faces are familiar, they evoke semantic and social information known about the person. Neuroimaging studies demonstrate differential brain activity to familiar and non-familiar faces; however, brain responses related to personally familiar faces have been more rarely…
Descriptors: Psychological Studies, Mothers, Semantics, Brain
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Swingler, Margaret M.; Sweet, Monica A.; Carver, Leslie J. – Developmental Psychology, 2010
Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded from 6-month-olds (N = 30) as they looked at pictures of their mother's face and a stranger's face. Negative component (Nc) and P400 component responses from the ERP portion of the study were correlated with behavioral responses of the infants during a separation from their mothers. We measured the…
Descriptors: Mothers, Infants, Parent Child Relationship, Brain