The University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United States conducted an experiment on children aged seven to twelve years. When they were asked to solve math problems before strangers, they were too nervous to solve them.
After that, the children were divided into three groups. One group of children talked with their moms on the phones, another group saw their moms in the photos, and the other group was with their moms. When they solved math problems after that, all three groups of children had a rapid rise in oxytocin levels. Oxytocin is a hormone that helps feel closeness, stability, and happiness. Just by looking at their moms in the photos, children felt as if they were with their moms and could solve the problems with ease.
It is not only children who recognize their mothers as special. The joint research team between the University of Toronto in Canada and the University of Winchester in England conducted an experiment on twenty adults with an average age of thirty-five; they watched Magnetic Resonance Imaging [MRI] after showing the adult subjects the photos of their mothers, fathers, celebrities, and strangers in turn. As a result of the experiment, the participants’ brain areas involved in cognition and emotion were most active when they saw their mothers in the photos.
It is our moms who are always imprinted on our brains as special even in adulthood as well as in childhood.