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. 2017 May 11;7:1727. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-01776-3

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Contrasting brain activity in mothers and non-mothers: Mothers demonstrated greater reactivity to vocalisations from infants and adults across a range of cortical regions implicated in the processing of affective auditory cues. These regions included areas involved in executive functions and higher order cognitive functions (middle frontal gyrus; MFG; precuneus)⁵⁶, interpretation of vocal content (middle temporal gyrus, MTG), affective processing (orbitofrontal cortex, OFC) and preparatory motor responses (supplementary motor area, SMA). [Upper: whole brain images are displayed with a p < 0.03, FWE-cluster corrected for multiple comparisons for ease of visualisation; Lower: parameter estimates were extracted from 6 mm radius spheres centered on peak coordinates identified in the whole brain GLM. Error bars represent mean+/− standard error].