UNITED KINGDOM–(ENEWSPF)–January 10, 2012. The sound of babies crying is uniquely able to get adults to react at speed, Oxford University researchers have found.
They compared the scores of 40 volunteers on the classic arcade game ‘Whack-a-mole’ after listening to babies crying, with their scores after hearing sounds of adults in distress or birdsong similar in pitch and variability to infants’ cries.
The participants’ scores were higher after listening to the sound of crying babies.…
