Activity changes in the left superior temporal sulcus reflect the effects of childcare training on young female students' perceptions of infants' negative facial expressions
| Autor: | Toshikatsu Fujii, Motoko Tanabe, Katsuko Niwano, Yosuke Sato, Ayahito Ito |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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media_common.quotation_subject education behavioral disciplines and activities 050105 experimental psychology Functional Laterality Developmental psychology 03 medical and health sciences Young Adult 0302 clinical medicine Neuroimaging Group differences Perception medicine Reaction Time Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Child Care Young female Students media_common Facial expression Brain Mapping medicine.diagnostic_test General Neuroscience 05 social sciences General Medicine Superior temporal sulcus Magnetic Resonance Imaging Temporal Lobe Facial Expression Affect Child Preschool Female Functional magnetic resonance imaging Psychology Left superior temporal sulcus Facial Recognition 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Neuroscience research. 131 |
| ISSN: | 1872-8111 |
| Popis: | In many developed countries, the number of infants who experience non-parent childcare is increasing, and the role of preschool teachers is becoming more important. However, little attention has been paid to the effects of childcare training on students who are studying to become preschool teachers. We used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to investigate whether and how childcare training affects brain responses to infants' facial expressions among young females studying to become preschool teachers. Twenty-seven subjects who attended a childcare training session (i.e., the experimental group) and 28 subjects who did not attend the training (i.e., the control group) participated in this study. The participants went through fMRI scanning twice: before and after the childcare training session. They were presented with happy, neutral, and sad infant faces one by one during fMRI scanning. The present neuroimaging results revealed that the activity patterns of the left superior temporal sulcus (STS) for sad faces were modulated by the interaction between the time point of the data collection and group differences. The present results are the first to highlight the effects of childcare training on the human brain. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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