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[quote=Anonymous]Regardless of whether you think a mother's love for her children is more, less or different than her love for the children's father (who may or may not be her husband), the premise that an fMRI shows this is flawed.

The premise of fMRI research like this is that the "areas" of the brain believed to be associated with "love" (whatever that is) light up and show activity when the subject is looking at different pictures. We don't actually understand how feelings work in the brain, and victims of strokes and brain damage have demonstrated that the brain can rewire itself around damaged areas - so different areas can perform different functions if necessary. So claiming that the "love" zone in the brain lights up "more" for children than the spouse is questionable, at best.

It's like when people claim they've found "the" gene for something even moderately complicated. It turns out that gene expression is a combination of many things including some environmental factors.

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