Because the study only looked at mothers, it's not known whether fathers have similar brain responses to a child's smile or tears.
An excerpt in the Reading File column last Sunday from an article about brain responses to Super Bowl advertisements misidentified the Web site that carried the full article.
Dr. Iacoboni and his colleagues used fast magnetic resonance imaging technology to observe brain responses to commercials shown during the Super Bowl.
Those 14, dubbed nonresponders, also had displayed the highest brain responses to food cues following exercise when the study began.
Laser evoked potentials (LEPs) are brain responses to activation of skin nociceptors by laser heat stimuli.
We investigated the concomitant changes in brain responses to food cues associated with protein.
But, he cautions, the work "doesn't mean there are not specialized brain responses to other categories".
Similarly, Cole et al. [20] have demonstrated unchanged or increased brain responses to mechanical pressure in patients with AD.
Our results suggest that bilingual infants' brain responses to speech differ from the pattern shown by monolingual infants.
However, the degree to which valence and arousal interact in determining brain responses to emotional pictures is still elusive.
These results demonstrate for the first time that brain responses to visual food cues are influenced by menstrual cycle phase.
