New mothers respond uniquely to their own babies. As this movie representing data from a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) brain scan illustrates, one area of the brain, shown in red, activates when mothers see their own infants; another area, shown in blue, activates when they see someone else's infant. (Movie courtesy Terry Oakes, Lab for Affective Neuroscience, UW-Madison)

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