Nature Communications (May 2016)

The child brain computes and utilizes internalized maternal choices

  • Seung-Lark Lim,
  • J. Bradley C. Cherry,
  • Ann M. Davis,
  • S. N. Balakrishnan,
  • Oh-Ryeong Ha,
  • Jared M. Bruce,
  • Amanda S. Bruce

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11700
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Mothers advocate eating healthy foods while children like to eat tasty foods. Lim and colleagues demonstrate that children incorporate their mothers' food choices while deciding what to eat as well as provide the neural correlates of this decision making process.