Mommy brain in the United States
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2263932 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Valerie Miller (0000-0001-5147-1476, Department of Anthropology Purdue University, corresponding author), Marcy Price‐crist (Independent scholar and licensed psychologist, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 111-129 |
| Publication date | 2023-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0091-2131 • E-ISSN: 1548-1352 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/etho.12381 |
| OpenAlex | W4319831833 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 81 |
Women undergo profound psychological and cognitive shifts throughout their life course, and motherhood entails dramatic mind-body adjustments. Growing maternal responsibilities and evidence from social sciences suggest motherhood enhances cognitive functioning, but mothers typically claim otherwise. This article uses maternal life stories to reveal cultural schemas of mommy brain as told by mothers in the United States. Our findings illustrate what mommy brain is in practice and how cultural narratives promote associations between motherhood and diminished cognitive functioning. We found that interruptions, cognitive overload, and newfound anxieties were fundamental components in mothers' mommy brain experiences. We believe that these factors, along with social isolation, play a salient role in self-reported deficits in maternal cognition. Understandings of mommy brain must move beyond neurobiology and attention and memory studies and consider how interruptions, overload, and other subjective experiences shape our definitions and what we know about maternal cognition
Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Developmental psychology · Isolation (microbiology) · Narrative · Salient · Social cognition · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Identity, Memory, and Therapy · Neuroendocrine regulation and behavior · Neuroscience · Psychology
Family obligations and social change
The cultural contradictions of motherhood
Heuristic research
The Reproduction of Mothering
Cross-Domain Identity Transition during Liminal Periods
Feeling Pressure to Be a Perfect Mother Relates to Parental Burnout and Career Ambitions
Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?
Social Research Methods
The woman in the body
Matrescence, Becoming a Mother, A “New/Old” Rite de Passage
Assessment of attention in biological mothers using the attention network test - revised
Maternal Encounters
Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
Becoming a Mother
Social Class, Gender, and Contemporary Parenting Standards in the United States
Cognitive psychology as ideology
Covid-19 threatens maternal mental health and infant development
Brain and Behavioral Modifications That Accompany the Onset of Motherhood
The Challenges of Idealized Mothering
The Price Mothers Pay, Even When They Are Not Buying It
Social support in the transition to parenthood
Stories as data, data as stories
Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture
The Narrated Self
The Body Multiple
Remembering What One Knows and the Construction of the Past
How Many Interviews Are Enough
On Recognition, Caring, and Dementia
The Practice of Mothering
Parenthood and Happiness
The Gendered Meanings of Virtue in Revolutionary America
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |