Monitor - September 2013

SEPTEMBER 2013 • MONITOR ON PSYCHOLOGY 31

perspective, in order to understand how it works and how it functions.

What’s next for you and your lab?

The fMRI approaches that I mentioned allow you to peer into the brain and see which regions and networks are activated — this is a spatial view. One approach we are pursuing in the near term asks instead about the temporal domain, and stages of information processing in parents’ and infants’ brains.

In one study, mothers brought 3- and 6-month infants to the lab. We took pictures of both the infants and the mothers and then hooked each up to an EEG net that allows us to monitor activity at the scalp. We analyzed mothers’ responses to the faces of their infants versus similar looking infants, and infants’ responses to their mothers versus similar-looking adult females.

We found that, by the time a baby is 3 months of age, mothers’ brains have become attuned to the faces of their infants, and infants’ brains to their mothers’ faces.

In the longer term, we are interested in studying whether and how the brains of teen moms, as well as atypical — depressed, abusing and neglecting — parents, and dads, may be similar to or different from one another and how they relate to actual parenting practices. n

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