| ■ Babies' Brains Respond to Others' Emotions at Early Age | 2011.07.01 |
| A new study finds that babies can respond to emotions in other people's voices by the time they're three months old, earlier than previously believed. Researchers used functional MRI to monitor brain activity in 21 babies as they heard emotional sounds, such as laughing and crying, and other sounds, such as water or toys, BBC News reported. The scans showed activity in the babies' temporal cortex when they heard the emotional human voices, the same part of the brain that's activated in adults. |