Gender-bias in the sensory representation of infant cry (Record no. 18071)
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| fixed length control field | 02047caa a2200217 4500 |
| 022 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD SERIAL NUMBER | |
| International Standard Serial Number | 1872-7972 |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | DhatriS. Devaraju |
| 245 #0 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Gender-bias in the sensory representation of infant cry |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. | |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. | 2018 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 138-143 |
| 490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT | |
| Volume/sequential designation | Volume 678 |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | The auditory neural pathway in females appears to be more sensitive to the cry of an infant (De Pisapia et al., 2013; Messina et al., 2016). Cortical responses in females have shown a distinct advantage compared to males in the auditory processing of infant cry. Such gender-bias in the cortical responses might emanate either at higher levels of processing such as cognitive and emotional processing or at the lower level representation of stimulus features. We assessed for a difference if any, between the two genders, in the sensory representation of an infant’s cry. We used frequency following responses (FFR) to assess the sensory representation of an infant cry. This was done in sixteen male and fifteen female non-parent adults. The FFR closely mimics the stimulus acoustics with fine temporal precision and is the measure of choice to assess the sensory encoding of sounds in the auditory system. We performed spectral analysis of the FFRs and compared the spectral magnitudes between males and females. We found significantly higher FFR spectral magnitudes in females compared to males. The gender differences found were not related to the confounding variables such as head size or differences in the volume-conducting media. By systematically controlling other influencing variables, we show that the bias in neural processing of infant cry in females emerges right at the sensory representation levels. |
| 653 ## - INDEX TERM--UNCONTROLLED | |
| Uncontrolled term | Infant cry, Frequency following response, Gender difference |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Ajith Kumar, U. |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Nike Gnanateja, G |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Sandeep Maruthy |
| 773 ## - HOST ITEM ENTRY | |
| Main entry heading | Neuroscience Letters |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neulet.2018.04.043 |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Faculty Publications |
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