“Babies can tell sad voices at 3 months,” according The Daily Telegraph. The newspaper reported that brain scans have shown that parts of the brain “light up more when babies hear sad voices”.
A sample of 21 babies, aged three to seven months old, was given a special type of MRI scan to measure the activity in different regions of the brain. While asleep, they listened to human speech and also to various “non-speech vocalisations”, which were each made to sound emotionally neutral (such as coughing), happy (laughing) or sad (crying). The scanner revealed that, in babies, an area of the brain called the temporal cortex is very sensitive to voices, much as it is in the developed brains of adults. The researchers also noticed that, while there was little difference in brain activation caused by neutral and happy sounds, sad emotions activated slightly different areas of the brain. This suggested that the ability of the brain to process human voices and negative emotions happens very early on in life.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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