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As kids become teens, mom's voice matters less to their brains
- WaitWaitWha 4y agoDOI https://www.jneurosci.org/content/42/20/4164 https://www.jneurosci.org/content/42/20/4164 A Neurodevelopmental Shift in Reward Circuitry from Mother's to Nonfamilial Voices in Adolescence
- 0xbadc0de5 4y agoFiled under "blatantly obvious common sense"
- tgv 4y agoAnd the conclusion was drawn from an experiment that doesn't exclude other explanations. At all. Another example of click-bait under the guise of science journalism.
- blitzar 4y agoI would love to send this, with comments, to friends who are absolutely certain the opposite is true ... for their little darlings.
- ChuckNorris89 4y agoWhat about the dad's voice?
- meepmorp 4y agoSomeone else linked to the study: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34677312 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34677312 From the abstract, it looks like they used fMRI to look at the neural response to maternal voice vs non-family voices. I guess no data on dada.
- bell-cot 4y agoBack in the day, that could mostly depend on the teen's near-future need to get allowance money, car keys, etc. from dad.
- amelius 4y agoThat's kept for the next research grant.
- glitchc 4y ago(As a dad) Transforms into a grating, low-frequency whine, kind of like a bad back-beat that you can't get rid off.
- fatnoah 4y agoI have a 15 year old and have directly observed the "tuning out mom" phenomenon. For whatever reason, my own dad voice still seems to bear weight. It's not clear to mom or I why that is, but I think the general consensus is that I'm less likely to weigh in on smaller things (state of hair, shirt tucking, etc), so that it's generally more "serious" when I'm involved, regardless of whether it's actually something actually more or less serious. Style-wise, I'm much more to coax than to nag or demand. (i.e. Not demand "do this now" but ask "when will this be done" and ensure a definite time is given as an answer and hold them to it)
- number6 4y agoI hope I remember this in 13 years. Sounds like a good approach w
- ARandomerDude 4y agoHave kids, can confirm
- Tycho 4y agoDoes anyone ever have an audio hallucination of their name being called out? (probably by a familiar voice) Like you can just about tell it's in your head and not a real sound, but at the same time, it seemed to come out of nowhere, not from a stream of related thoughts. I can't recall it happening anytime recently but more when I was younger.
- lampshades 4y agoMy name is a common word in English and I hear it all the time. Maybe some of them are hallucinations, I have no idea. Slight tangent: are you “the” Tycho?
- Tycho 4y agoNo, I am not.
- cgjohn 4y agoThere's a Justin Timberlake song which contains a subtle sound that sounds exactly like my mom calling me from downstairs, but in a way I can't quite tell whether it's true or imagined. Decades later I know it is just part of the song, but hearing it still leaves me stopped in my tracks wondering whether I was just called.
- qingdao99 4y agoYep, I have the same thing in a song. Every time I hear it, I think it's a specific person calling for me.
- stumblindrunk 4y agoYes, I have had it happen very clearly a few times. It’s always my father’s voice. I’ve also heard a snare drum once and a shopping cart crash once; both were so clear, and so clearly hallucinations, that they’ve stuck with me for decades.
- veqz 4y agoMy mother calls for me every time during the guitar solo of Guns N' Roses' Sweet Child O' Mine. Reminds me of my childhood memories playing video games in the basement, and always makes me smile. Love that song :)