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Looking at a baby (superior image) instantly triggers neural activity in a specific area of the medial 

orbitofrontal region of our brain. This does not happen when looking at an adult. Morten Kringelbach’s 

team sees such a signal as a "reward", as a sort of "parental instinct" programmed in our neurons. In 

a different region of the brain, the fusiform face area (inferior images) points to another form of recognition, 

used when looking at either adults or children. 

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