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Infants’ Faces Evoke Species-Specific Patterns Of Brain Activity In Adults – Evidence Of Basis For Caregiving Impulse

March 20, 2012 by

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...

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