Kids Can Hear Their Mom's Voice Above All Others, So Why Won't They $#*!ing List
When it comes to their kids, moms have Supermächte. Wir können mit kaum mehr als einem Blick erkennen, ob sie liegen, krank, verletzt, müde oder hungrig sind. Wir können ihre kleinsten Schreie aus mehreren Räumen hören – und wie sich herausstellt, können sie uns auch hören. Science confirms that kids’ brains are wired to pick out their mothers’ voices above any others.
Despite all the terrible listening that would suggest otherwise.
According to a study published last week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, kids’ brains are designed to more strongly respond to their mothers’ voices than a stranger’s, even when the words are total nonsense or heard for only a split second.
The study was produced by the results of brain scans performed on 24 healthy kids between ages 7 and 12. During the scans, the kids got to hear clips less than a second long of their mother’s voice speaking nonsensical words and clips by two women the children didn’t know.
A staggering 97% of the time, the kids identified their mothers’ voice. Bedenken Sie, dass diese Clips weniger als eine Sekunde lang waren und nicht einmal echte Worte enthielten. Das ist ziemlich erstaunlich und beweist die unglaubliche Bindung, die Mütter zu ihren Kindern haben.
Jetzt kommt der lustige Teil. The researchers discovered that the parts of the child’s brain related to “reward, emotion and face-processing centers” were the areas that lit up during the scan.
In other words, they hear us because their very neural make-up tells them we will make them happy and possibly, give them shit. Because, of course.
Since their little brains are trained to hear us more easily than anyone else because they might be in some way rewarded, they can recognize us, even under the most nebulous circumstances. Wenn Sie es wagen, in ihrer Nähe ein Wort zu sagen, selbst wenn der Raum überfüllt ist, werden sie Sie wahrscheinlich erkennen. Wie...tröstend?
Das ist es wirklich. Es ist erstaunlich, dass die Biologie diese kleinen Verbindungen zwischen Mutter und Kind herstellt. It’s easy to imagine back in caveman times, this kind of phenomenon helped to keep the straying cave children close to their mother for their own safety. Wenn sie ihre Stimme besser als alle anderen hören könnten, hätte es sie vielleicht irgendwie davor bewahrt, von einem Säbelzahntiger gefressen zu werden. Was moderne Kinder betrifft?
Wenn sie ihre Ohren spitzen, bekommen sie vielleicht ein paar Fruchtsnacks. Or a juice box!
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As far as the practical and clinical value of this study, researchers also looked at the connectivity in the brain when the kids heard the voice clips and found that social communication skills were better in children with better connectivity. The “neural fingerprint” in kids who have these solid social communication skills can be used to help understand why children with autism or other disorders affecting communication have trouble with these connections.
No matter what, it’s very cool to know that our voices have such an impact on our kids that they’re literally imprinted on their brains for all of time. Now, if only they would actually listen when we talk about something other than snacks and their iPads.
H/T Mashable
This article was originally published on May 22, 2016