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| Title |
Duration of exclusive breastfeeding is associated with differences in infants’ brain responses to emotional body expressions
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, January 2015
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| DOI | 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00459 |
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| Authors |
Kathleen M. Krol, Purva Rajhans, Manuela Missana, Tobias Grossmann |
| Abstract |
Much research has recognized the general importance of maternal behavior in the early development and programing of the mammalian offspring's brain. Exclusive breastfeeding (EBF) duration, the amount of time in which breastfed meals are the only source of sustenance, plays a prominent role in promoting healthy brain and cognitive development in human children. However, surprisingly little is known about the influence of breastfeeding on social and emotional development in infancy. In the current study, we examined whether and how the duration of EBF impacts the neural processing of emotional signals by measuring electro-cortical responses to body expressions in 8-month-old infants. Our analyses revealed that infants with high EBF experience show a significantly greater neural sensitivity to happy body expressions than those with low EBF experience. Moreover, regression analyses revealed that the neural bias toward happiness or fearfulness differs as a function of the duration of EBF. Specifically, longer breastfeeding duration is associated with a happy bias, whereas shorter breastfeeding duration is associated with a fear bias. These findings suggest that breastfeeding experience can shape the way in which infants respond to emotional signals. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 55 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 11 | 20% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 7% |
| Sweden | 2 | 4% |
| Spain | 2 | 4% |
| Mexico | 1 | 2% |
| Andorra | 1 | 2% |
| Bulgaria | 1 | 2% |
| Philippines | 1 | 2% |
| Germany | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 8 | 15% |
| Unknown | 23 | 42% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 47 | 85% |
| Scientists | 4 | 7% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 3 | 5% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 2% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 124 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| France | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 123 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 14 | 11% |
| Student > Master | 13 | 10% |
| Student > Bachelor | 13 | 10% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 11 | 9% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 10 | 8% |
| Other | 18 | 15% |
| Unknown | 45 | 36% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 42 | 34% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 13 | 10% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 7 | 6% |
| Arts and Humanities | 3 | 2% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 2 | 2% |
| Other | 8 | 6% |
| Unknown | 49 | 40% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 82. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 November 2016.
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