An Infant's Brain Activity Upon Hearing His Mother's Voice (IMAGE)

University of Montreal

An Infant's Brain Activity Upon Hearing His Mother's Voice

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These images show an infant's brain activity upon hearing his mother’s voice, and then a stranger’s voice. We clearly see the activation of the left-side of the brain (responsible for language learning) in the first instance, and the right-side of the brain (voice recognition) in the second.

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Credit: doi:10.1093/cercor/bhq242, <i>Cerebral Cortex</i>, Oxford University Press.

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