Brain responses differ to faces of mothers and fathers
Brain responses differ to faces of mothers and fathers
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DOI：
10.1016/j.bandc.2010.06.003
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发表时间：
2010-10-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Taylor, Margot J.
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作者：
Arsalidou, Marie;Barbeau, Emmanuel J.;Taylor, Margot J.
我们每天都会遇到许多面孔，但相对而言，熟悉的人很少。一旦面孔被熟悉，它们就会唤起关于这个人的语义和社会信息。神经影像学研究表明，熟悉和不熟悉的面孔会产生不同的大脑活动;然而，与熟悉面孔相关的大脑反应却很少被研究。我们用功能性磁共振成像检查了成年人对父母面孔的大脑活动，并将其与名人和陌生人的面孔进行了比较。总的来说，与父亲、名人或陌生人的面孔相比，母亲的面孔在与面孔处理相关的核心和扩展大脑区域引起了更多的活动。父亲的脸会引起尾状核的活动，这是一种与爱的感觉有关的深层大脑结构。这些关于父母面孔引起的不同大脑反应的新发现与依恋的心理学研究一致，即使在成年期也很明显。(C)2010年爱思唯尔公司All rights reserved.
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 studied. We examined brain activity with fMRI in adults in response to faces of their mothers and fathers compared to faces of celebrities and strangers. Overall, faces of mothers elicited more activity in core and extended brain regions associated with face processing, compared to fathers, celebrity or stranger faces. Fathers' faces elicited activity in the caudate, a deep brain structure associated with feelings of love. These new findings of differential brain responses elicited by faces of mothers and fathers are consistent with psychological research on attachment, evident even during adulthood. (C) 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.