Sex differences in small-magnitude heart-rate responses to sexual and infant-related stimuli: A psychophysiological approach

Furedy, John J.; Fleming, Alison S.; Ruble, Diane N.; Scher, Hal; Daly, Jacque; Day, David M.; Loewen, Ruth

doi:10.1016/0031-9384(89)90056-5

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“…A further aspect that may contribute to the observed sex differences is women's role in childcare. In this context, there is evidence for a larger psychophysiological response to infant crying in women than in men [22]. Moreover, women have been found to identify emotional expressions in infants faster and more accurately than men [23].…”

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Sex differences in the preattentive processing of vocal emotional expressions

2005

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Emotional tone of voice indicates the signi¢cance of a spoken utterance. We asked whether listeners recognize this signi¢cance even when attending to something else and whether men and women di¡er in this regard.To answer these questions, we presented emotionally or neutrally spoken syllables as standards and deviants in a mismatch negativity paradigm. Independent of the listeners' sex, deviants elicited a mismatch negativity in the scalp-recorded event-related potential as an indicator of preattentive acoustic change detection. Only women, however, showed a larger mismatch negativity to emotional than to neutral deviants.Thus, even though both sexes detect change in voice preattentively, only women recruit additional processing resources when the change in voice is one of emotional valence. NeuroReport 16:635^639

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Sex differences in the preattentive processing of vocal emotional expressions

2005

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“…In addition, this early detection in brainstem regions might support initiation of a state of heightened physiological arousal upon detection of infant cues. Peripheral psychophysiological studies have demonstrated that hearing infant cries can impact the listener's heart rate, respiration and hand grip strength [although the direction of these effects varies across studies; [72,[73][74][75][76][77]]. It is hypothesised that heightened physiological arousal aids the initiation of rapid, effortful caregiving behaviour.…”

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“…Montoya et al [63] Ranote et al [64] Barrett et al [65] Strathearn et al [66] STS/G Kim et al [60] Lorberbaum et al [61] Mascaro et al [67] Bos et al [68] Riem et al [62] Montoya et al [63] Montoya et al [63] Ranote et al [64] Noriuchi et al [69] Barrett et al [65] Bartels and Zeki [70] Strathearn et al [66] FFG -Caria et al [71] Bartels and Zeki [70] Nitschke et al [72] Strathearn et al [66] Frontal lobe OFC Laurent et al [73] Mascaro et al [67] Baeken et al [74] Glocker et al [29] Leibenluft et al [75] Montoya et al [63] Nitschke et al [72] Ranote et al [64] Strathearn et al [66] Bartels and Zeki [70] Noriuchi et al [ …”

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The neural basis of responsive caregiving behaviour: Investigating temporal dynamics within the parental brain

Young

Parsons

Stein

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Behavioural Brain Research

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“…In the auditory domain, women and men are similar in their explicit appraisal of infant vocalisations, reporting similar levels of perceived distress and desire to respond (Donate-Bartfield and Passman, 1985 ; Leger et al, 1996 ; Parsons et al, 2014b , c ). There is mixed evidence on whether there are gender differences in physiological reactions to infant cries, with findings demonstrating greater reactivity in women than men (Wiesenfeld et al, 1981 ; Furedy et al, 1989 ) or greater reactivity in men than women (Brewster et al, 1998 ; Out et al, 2010 ). One study to date assessing motivational salience of infant cries demonstrated no gender differences (Parsons et al, 2012a ).…”

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Motion and emotion: depression reduces psychomotor performance and alters affective movements in caregiving interactions

Young

Parsons

Stein

et al. 2015

Front. Behav. Neurosci.

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Background: Impaired social functioning is a well-established feature of depression. Evidence to date suggests that disrupted processing of emotional cues may constitute part of this impairment. Beyond processing of emotional cues, fluent social interactions require that people physically move in synchronized, contingent ways. Disruptions to physical movements are a diagnostic feature of depression (psychomotor disturbance) but have not previously been assessed in the context of social functioning. Here we investigated the impact of psychomotor disturbance in depression on physical responsive behavior in both an experimental and observational setting.Methods: In Experiment 1, we examined motor disturbance in depression in response to salient emotional sounds, using a laboratory-based effortful motor task. In Experiment 2, we explored whether psychomotor disturbance was apparent in real-life social interactions. Using mother-infant interactions as a model affective social situation, we compared physical behaviors of mothers with and without postnatal depression (PND).Results: We found impairments in precise, controlled psychomotor performance in adults with depression relative to healthy adults (Experiment 1). Despite this disruption, all adults showed enhanced performance following exposure to highly salient emotional cues (infant cries). Examining real-life interactions, we found differences in physical movements, namely reduced affective touching, in mothers with PND responding to their infants, compared to healthy mothers (Experiment 2).Conclusions: Together, these findings suggest that psychomotor disturbance may be an important feature of depression that can impair social functioning. Future work investigating whether improvements in physical movement in depression could have a positive impact on social interactions would be of much interest.

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Sex differences in small-magnitude heart-rate responses to sexual and infant-related stimuli: A psychophysiological approach

Cited by 17 publications

References 12 publications

Sex differences in the preattentive processing of vocal emotional expressions

Sex differences in the preattentive processing of vocal emotional expressions

The neural basis of responsive caregiving behaviour: Investigating temporal dynamics within the parental brain

Motion and emotion: depression reduces psychomotor performance and alters affective movements in caregiving interactions

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