Young children's neural processing of their mother’s voice: An fMRI study

Participants were 51 7- and 8-year-old children. Each child was presented with speech stimuli spoken in happy, angry, sad, and non-emotional prosodies by both the child’s mother and another child’s mother, unfamiliar to the target child. In Liu et al., the children underwent functional MRI while they listened passively to the recordings. In Stoop et al. (2020), the children's ratings of the recordings were collected. Stoop, T.B., Moriarty, P.M., Wolf, R., Gilmore, R.O., Perez-Edgar, K., Scherf, S, Vigeant, M.C., & Cole, P.M. (2020). I know that voice! Mothers' voices influence children's perceptions of emotional intensity. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 199. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2020.104907. This volume contains the recordings of the mothers and demographic data about the children and mothers.