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Increased child‐evoked activation in the precuneus during facial affect recognition in mothers

Successful parenting requires constant inferring of affective states. Especially vital is the correct identification of facial affect. Previous studies have shown that infant faces are processed preferentially compared to adult faces both on the behavioural and the neural level. This study specifica...

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Autores principales: Plank, Irene Sophia, Hindi Attar, Catherine, Kunas, Stefanie Lydia, Bermpohl, Felix, Dziobek, Isabel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9120561/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35278010
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25825
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author Plank, Irene Sophia
Hindi Attar, Catherine
Kunas, Stefanie Lydia
Bermpohl, Felix
Dziobek, Isabel
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Hindi Attar, Catherine
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description Successful parenting requires constant inferring of affective states. Especially vital is the correct identification of facial affect. Previous studies have shown that infant faces are processed preferentially compared to adult faces both on the behavioural and the neural level. This study specifically investigates the child‐evoked neural responses to affective faces and their modulation by motherhood and attention to affect. To do so, we used a paradigm to measure neural responses during both explicit and implicit facial affect recognition (FAR) in mothers and non‐mothers using child and adult faces. Increased activation to child compared to adult faces was found for mothers and non‐mothers in face processing areas (bilateral fusiform gyri) and areas associated with social understanding (bilateral insulae and medial superior frontal gyrus) when pooling implicit and explicit affect recognition. Furthermore, this child‐evoked activation was modulated by motherhood with an increase in mothers compared to non‐mothers in the left precuneus. Additionally, explicitly recognising the affect increased child‐evoked activation in the medial superior frontal gyrus in both mothers and non‐mothers. These results suggest preferential treatment of affective child over adult faces, modulated by motherhood and attention to affect.
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spelling pubmed-91205612022-05-21 Increased child‐evoked activation in the precuneus during facial affect recognition in mothers Plank, Irene Sophia Hindi Attar, Catherine Kunas, Stefanie Lydia Bermpohl, Felix Dziobek, Isabel Hum Brain Mapp Research Articles Successful parenting requires constant inferring of affective states. Especially vital is the correct identification of facial affect. Previous studies have shown that infant faces are processed preferentially compared to adult faces both on the behavioural and the neural level. This study specifically investigates the child‐evoked neural responses to affective faces and their modulation by motherhood and attention to affect. To do so, we used a paradigm to measure neural responses during both explicit and implicit facial affect recognition (FAR) in mothers and non‐mothers using child and adult faces. Increased activation to child compared to adult faces was found for mothers and non‐mothers in face processing areas (bilateral fusiform gyri) and areas associated with social understanding (bilateral insulae and medial superior frontal gyrus) when pooling implicit and explicit affect recognition. Furthermore, this child‐evoked activation was modulated by motherhood with an increase in mothers compared to non‐mothers in the left precuneus. Additionally, explicitly recognising the affect increased child‐evoked activation in the medial superior frontal gyrus in both mothers and non‐mothers. These results suggest preferential treatment of affective child over adult faces, modulated by motherhood and attention to affect. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2022-03-12 /pmc/articles/PMC9120561/ /pubmed/35278010 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25825 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Human Brain Mapping published by Wiley Periodicals LLC. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Kunas, Stefanie Lydia
Bermpohl, Felix
Dziobek, Isabel
Increased child‐evoked activation in the precuneus during facial affect recognition in mothers
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title_short Increased child‐evoked activation in the precuneus during facial affect recognition in mothers
title_sort increased child‐evoked activation in the precuneus during facial affect recognition in mothers
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9120561/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35278010
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25825
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