As kids become teens, mom's voice matters less to their brains

My name is a common word in English and I hear it all the time. Maybe some of them are hallucinations, I have no idea.

Slight tangent: are you “the” Tycho?

There's a Justin Timberlake song which contains a subtle sound that sounds exactly like my mom calling me from downstairs, but in a way I can't quite tell whether it's true or imagined.

Decades later I know it is just part of the song, but hearing it still leaves me stopped in my tracks wondering whether I was just called.

Yes, I have had it happen very clearly a few times. It’s always my father’s voice. I’ve also heard a snare drum once and a shopping cart crash once; both were so clear, and so clearly hallucinations, that they’ve stuck with me for decades.

My mother calls for me every time during the guitar solo of Guns N' Roses' Sweet Child O' Mine.

Reminds me of my childhood memories playing video games in the basement, and always makes me smile. Love that song :)

I have auditory hallucinations. I need silence with earplugs and noise cancelling headphones. I can have subvocal thoughts back and forth with the voices. Sometimes they say my name. Usually it's to get my attention.

For a few years, I would hear my mom call my name the second before I drifted off to sleep.

Yes, very loudly and clearly sometimes. It has been pretty scary in the past, it had always been on the edge of sounding real. Once or twice a week.

And the conclusion was drawn from an experiment that doesn't exclude other explanations. At all. Another example of click-bait under the guise of science journalism.

I would love to send this, with comments, to friends who are absolutely certain the opposite is true ... for their little darlings.

Someone else linked to the study:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34677312

From the abstract, it looks like they used fMRI to look at the neural response to maternal voice vs non-family voices. I guess no data on dada.

Back in the day, that could mostly depend on the teen's near-future need to get allowance money, car keys, etc. from dad.

That's kept for the next research grant.

(As a dad) Transforms into a grating, low-frequency whine, kind of like a bad back-beat that you can't get rid off.

I have a 15 year old and have directly observed the "tuning out mom" phenomenon. For whatever reason, my own dad voice still seems to bear weight. It's not clear to mom or I why that is, but I think the general consensus is that I'm less likely to weigh in on smaller things (state of hair, shirt tucking, etc), so that it's generally more "serious" when I'm involved, regardless of whether it's actually something actually more or less serious. Style-wise, I'm much more to coax than to nag or demand. (i.e. Not demand "do this now" but ask "when will this be done" and ensure a definite time is given as an answer and hold them to it)