New Study Reveals The Reason Teens Seem to Tune Out Their Mom’s Voice
"Are you even listening to me?"It's a question that discouraged parents often throw at their distracted teenagers, and the truthful answer is probably, "No."It's hard to really blame them. New research on adolescent brains suggests the reaction we have to certain voices naturally shifts with time, making our mother's voice feel less valuable.
When scanning the brains of children, those 12 years and under showed an explosive neural response to their mother's voice, activating reward centers and emotion-processing centers…