title: Brain processes in women and men in response to emotive sounds.
abstract: Adult appropriate responding to salient infant signals is vital to child healthy psychological development. Here we investigated how infant crying, relative to other emotive sounds of infant laughing or adult crying, captures adults' brain resources. In a sample of nulliparous women and men, we investigated the effects of different sounds on cerebral activation of the default mode network (DMN) and reaction times (RTs) while listeners engaged in self-referential decision and syllabic counting tasks, which, respectively, require the activation or deactivation of the DMN. Sounds affect women and men differently. In women, infant crying deactivated the DMN during the self-referential decision task; in men, female adult crying interfered with the DMN during the syllabic counting task. These findings point to different brain processes underlying responsiveness to crying in women and men and show that cerebral activation is modulated by situational contexts in which crying occurs.
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science , University of Trento , Trento , Italy.|b Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development , NIH , Bethesda , MD , USA.
authors.forename: Paola
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Rigo
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science , University of Trento , Trento , Italy.
authors.forename: Nicola
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: De Pisapia
authors.affiliation: b Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development , NIH , Bethesda , MD , USA.
authors.forename: Marc H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Bornstein
authors.affiliation: b Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development , NIH , Bethesda , MD , USA.
authors.forename: Diane L
authors.initials: DL
authors.lastname: Putnick
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science , University of Trento , Trento , Italy.
authors.forename: Mauro
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Serra
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science , University of Trento , Trento , Italy.|c Division of Psychology , Nanyang Technological University , Singapore , Singapore.
authors.forename: Gianluca
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Esposito
authors.affiliation: a Department of Psychology and Cognitive Science , University of Trento , Trento , Italy.
authors.forename: Paola
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Venuti
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D001921:Brain / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D003448:Crying; D003657:Decision Making / Q000502:physiology; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007845:Laughter; D008279:Magnetic Resonance Imaging; D008297:Male; D009434:Neural Pathways / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000502:physiology; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D009622:Noise; D011930:Reaction Time; D012727:Sex Characteristics; D012938:Social Perception; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: Infant and adult crying; adult sensitivity; behavior; default mode network