1. Towards a neural model of infant cry perception
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J.K. Rilling, Peter A. Bos, Niels O. Schiller, Jurriaan Witteman, Marian J. Bakermans-Kranenburg, and M.H. Van IJzendoorn
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endocrine system ,Cognitive Neuroscience ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Cry ,Emotions ,Inferior frontal gyrus ,Prefrontal Cortex ,Crying ,03 medical and health sciences ,Behavioral Neuroscience ,Reward system ,0302 clinical medicine ,Perception ,medicine ,Auditory system ,Humans ,0501 psychology and cognitive sciences ,050102 behavioral science & comparative psychology ,Prefrontal cortex ,Infant crying ,Auditory ,media_common ,Emotion ,Anterior insula ,Brain Mapping ,Motor area ,Parenting ,05 social sciences ,Infant ,Brain ,Neuropsychology and Physiological Psychology ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Psychology ,Neuroscience ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,psychological phenomena and processes - Abstract
Previous work suggests that infant cry perception is supported by an evolutionary old neural network consisting of the auditory system, the thalamocingulate circuit, the frontoinsular system, the reward pathway and the medial prefrontal cortex. Furthermore, gender and parenthood have been proposed to modulate processing of infant cries. The present meta-analysis (N = 350) confirmed involvement of the auditory system, the thalamocingulate circuit, the dorsal anterior insula, the pre-supplementary motor area and dorsomedial prefrontal cortex and the inferior frontal gyrus in infant cry perception, but not of the reward pathway. Structures related to motoric processing, possibly supporting the preparation of a parenting response, were also involved. Finally, females (more than males) and parents (more than non-parents) recruited a cortico-limbic sensorimotor integration network, offering a neural explanation for previously observed enhanced processing of infant cries in these sub-groups. Based on the results, an updated neural model of infant cry perception is presented.
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- 2019
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