Ten months after their first birthday, children are surprised to receive a letter from their cruel caretaker stating that they are back in his care and that they must accept their new home. A study conducted by the lab of Dr. David Boyer, director of Neural Computation and Integration Lab at Tufts University in Boston, showed that this phenomenon was triggered by the presence of the caregivers’ presence, based on a young person’s in-roster intent to return home.
However, “The fact that these special caretakers initiated such an impulse at the outset of their childhood implies it was instigated by emotions of individual child and does not necessarily reflect any specifically learning process. We envision the presence of the caregivers may uniquely impact the child’s mental or physical development and promote culturally relevant messages of relinquishment, value, and freedom,” Boyer said.
Studies of brain emotion and the brain communication system have shown that young adults who are sensitized to pain and killed self tend to express more positive emotions such as empathy towards the dead person. Based on this work, future researchers could target the neuroimaging of such traumatized children to can determine if the first language learning associated with emotional suffering is language appropriate, thereby facilitating only a more appropriate and efficient outcome.