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May 18th, 2016 
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Susanne Posel ,Chief Editor Occupy Corporatism | Media Spokesperson, HEALTH MAX Brands
Researchers from Stanford University (SU) School of Medicine have published a small study showing that “brain regions that respond more strongly to the mother’s voice extend beyond auditory areas to include those involved in emotion and reward processing, social functions, detection of what is personally relevant and face recognition.”
With only 24 child participants ranging in ages from 7 to 12, this study cannot be reflective of a scientific finding. Those volunteers were raised by their biological mothers and did not suffer from developmental disorders.
The paper purports that social behavior, “language and emotional processes are learned by listening to our mom’s voice.”
Psychiatric professor Vinod Menon and his team set out to investigate who children prefer their mother’s voice; whether or not it is “just auditory and voice-selective areas that respond differently, or is it more broad in terms of engagement, emotional reactivity and detection of salient stimuli?”
Menon suggested that this study “is an important new template for investigating social communication deficits in children with disorders such as autism.”
Using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), the small study produced tendencies toward favoritism when hearing the children’s own mother’s voice which could be identified even in small audio clips with 97% accuracy.
The regions of the brain that became engaged when the child heard their mother’s voice included the primary auditory cortex, the amygdala, the mesolimbic reward pathway, the medial prefrontal cortex and the default mode network.
This indicates that hearing their mother’s voice triggered activity in the emotional value/reward system, self-esteem and facial processing areas meaning that, there is “biological circuitry” that becomes active facilitating the emotional comfort children feel.
Lead author Daniel Abrams explained in a press release : “Many of our social, language and emotional processes are learned by listening to our mom’s voice. But surprisingly little is known about how the brain organizes itself around this very important sound source.”
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