Sleep, Little Baby: The Calming Effects of Prenatal Speech Exposure on Newborns’ Sleep and Heartrate
In a pilot study, 34 fetuses were stimulated daily with a maternal spoken nursery rhyme from week 34 of gestation onward and re-exposed two and five weeks after birth to this familiar, as well as to an unfamiliar rhyme, both spoken with the maternal and an unfamiliar female voice. During auditory st...
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Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2020-08-01
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Series: | Brain Sciences |
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3425/10/8/511 |