Abstract #1203

Gender differences in brain response to infant emotional faces

Wei Su¹, Xiaoyu Du², Xianling Liu³, Zhenhua Sun⁴, Kaihua Zhang¹, Mengxing Wang⁵, and Xiaoxia Du⁶

¹School of psychology, Shandong Normal University, Ji’nan, China, ²Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, ³Department of Medicine Imaging, The People's Hospital of Jinan Central District, Jinan, China, ⁴School of information science and engineering, Linyi University, Linyi, China, ⁵College of Medical Imaging, Shanghai University of Medicine and Health Sciences, Shanghai, China, ⁶Department of Psychology, Shanghai University of Sport, Shanghai, China

Synopsis

Keywords: Nerves, fMRI (task based), Infant emotional faces, EmpathyExploring the neural processes of recognizing infant stimuli promotes better understandings of the mother-infant attachment mechanisms. Here combining Task-fMRI and resting-state fMRI investigated the effects of infants’ emotional faces on the brain activity of women and men. The task-fMRI showed that the brains of women and men reacted differently to infants’ faces, and these differential areas are in facial processing and empathetic networks. The rs-fMRI further showed that the connectivity of the default-mode network-related regions increased in women than men. These differences might facilitate women to more effective and quick adjustments in behaviors and emotions during the nurturing infant period.

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