Ready for action: A role for the human midbrain in responding to infant vocalizations

Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 977-984

  Parsons, Christine E ^a,b   Young, Katherine S ^a,b   Joensson, Morten ^a,b   Brattico, Elvira ^c,d   Hyam, Jonathan A ^e   Stein, Alan ^a   Green, Alexander L ^e   Aziz, Tipu Z ^e   Kringelbach, Morten L ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF JYVÄSKYLÄ   (Finland)

^e JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Deep brain stimulation; Infant; Local field potentials; Midbrain; Parenting; Periaqueductal gray

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CHRONIC PAIN; CRYING; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; IMPLANTABLE NEUROSTIMULATOR; INFANT; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERCEPTIVE DISCRIMINATION; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PHYSIOLOGY; THALAMUS; TIME; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHILD LANGUAGE; CHRONIC PAIN; CRYING; DEEP BRAIN STIMULATION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; HUMANS; IMPLANTABLE NEUROSTIMULATORS; INFANT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; THALAMUS; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84904244508     PISSN: 17495016     EISSN: 17495024     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nst076     Document Type: Article

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