Kids' brains are actually wired to pick out their mom's voice

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There really is something special about a mother’s voice, science confirms.

Children’s brains respond more strongly to their mothers’ voices than to the voices of strangers, even when heard for only a fraction of a second, according to a new study published May 16, in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

“We know that hearing [their] mother’s voice can be an important source of emotional comfort to children. Here, we’re showing the biological circuitry underlying that,” Daniel Abrams, an instructor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine in California and the lead author of the study, said in a statement. Read more…

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