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NIH Brain Imaging Study Finds Evidence of Basis for Caregiving Impulse

Infants’ faces evoke species-specific patterns of brain activity in adults

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Bethesda, Maryland–(ENEWSPF)–March 16, 2012.  Distinct patterns of activity — which may indicate a predisposition to care for infants — appear in the brains of adults who view an image of an infant face — even when the child is not theirs, according to a study by researchers at the National Institutes of Health and in Germany, Italy, and Japan.

Seeing images of infant faces appeared…

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