Multiple studiesi' in both animals and humans. show the importance of a mother's love {or the unconditional love of any close person to a child} in a child's brain development. A recent study shows that children with nurturing mothers had a substantiallyT larger area of the brain called the hippocampus than children with less nurturing mothers. This is important because other studies have shown that the size of the hippocampus matters: People with Large hippocampus area are more resilient and are more likely.? to be able to weather the sn"esses and strains of dailyI life. These observations come from experiments in animals and observational studies in humans. (a) Is the amount of maternal nurturing one receives as a child positivelj.r or negativel}F associated with hippocampus size?|