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Unborn Children Prefer Mother' S Voice - Culture, Family, Travel, Consumer Reviews - Posted: 27th Jun, 2013 - 12:26am
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Unborn Children Prefer Mother's Voice
Sometimes I wonder how they come up with these studies.
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QUOTE Study Reveals Unborn Children Prefer Mother's Voice Toronto, Canada -- A new study finds unborn children recognize and prefer their mother's voice while still in the womb. Canadian and Chinese researchers studying infant development released key findings this month suggesting babies' brains learn speech patterns and lay the groundwork for language acquisition while still in the womb, ABC News reports. "Before birth, the brain is being set up to learn language," Barbara Kisilevsky, a nursing professor at Queens University in Ontario, told ABC News. Kisilevsky conducted the research with a team of psychologists from Queens and obstetricians in Hangzhou, China.
According to a Queens University press release, research had already established newborn infants' preference for their mother's voice, but this latest finding demonstrates unborn babies also prefer their mother's voice to unfamiliar female voices.
Since the same results were achieved in Canada as in China, researchers determined the findings were universal and not culturally based.
"It's good to know that in both cultures, we got the same results," Kisilevsky said.
Kisilevsky and researchers at Zhejiang University tested 60 women in the final stage of pregnancy. The mothers were tape-recorded as they read a poem out loud. Half the babies then heard a 2-minute recording of their own mother. The other half heard an unfamiliar mother's voice.
Researchers found that the babies responded to their own mother's voice with heart-rate acceleration and to an unfamiliar female voice with heart-rate deceleration.
Deceleration of the heart rate is "An attention mechanism," Kisilevsky told ABC News. The heartbeat of babies who heard an unfamiliar voice slowed down, she continued, because they were paying close attention to a voice they did not recognize. "These results tell us that the fetuses heard and responded to both voices and that there was sustained attention to both voices," Noted Kisilevsky. "But, because they responded differently to the two voices, we know they had to recognize their own mother's voice."
Kisilevsky's team is now investigating unborn children's response to the father's voice and the ability of unborn babies to differentiate between English and Mandarin. Ref. Source 9
According to a Queens University press release, research had already established newborn infants' preference for their mother's voice, but this latest finding demonstrates unborn babies also prefer their mother's voice to unfamiliar female voices.
Since the same results were achieved in Canada as in China, researchers determined the findings were universal and not culturally based.
"It's good to know that in both cultures, we got the same results," Kisilevsky said.
Kisilevsky and researchers at Zhejiang University tested 60 women in the final stage of pregnancy. The mothers were tape-recorded as they read a poem out loud. Half the babies then heard a 2-minute recording of their own mother. The other half heard an unfamiliar mother's voice.
Researchers found that the babies responded to their own mother's voice with heart-rate acceleration and to an unfamiliar female voice with heart-rate deceleration.
Deceleration of the heart rate is "An attention mechanism," Kisilevsky told ABC News. The heartbeat of babies who heard an unfamiliar voice slowed down, she continued, because they were paying close attention to a voice they did not recognize. "These results tell us that the fetuses heard and responded to both voices and that there was sustained attention to both voices," Noted Kisilevsky. "But, because they responded differently to the two voices, we know they had to recognize their own mother's voice."
Kisilevsky's team is now investigating unborn children's response to the father's voice and the ability of unborn babies to differentiate between English and Mandarin. Ref. Source 9
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I am surprised that LDS has not picked up on this topic yet. As an added rant to this... Felipe always prefer to run to mom for comfort and for play to dad, but this might be because mothers tend to 'buter' children more than fathers.
*Puts up shields in case anything unusual happens 
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Now there's a whole different topic, JB. Mothers are (normally!) more nurturing than fathers...
It's just interesting to me that they have to perform a STUDY, and all that that entails, just to tell us something that is so obvious. Our good Lord in His wisdom knows how to design strong bonds within families... and it begins in the womb (or, perhaps prior to this?).
It's just interesting to me that they have to perform a STUDY, and all that that entails, just to tell us something that is so obvious. Our good Lord in His wisdom knows how to design strong bonds within families... and it begins in the womb (or, perhaps prior to this?).
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Duh! No-brainer, you guys. How much did you get paid to figure that one out?
In my opinion.
Roz
In my opinion.
Roz
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Men call it 'spoiling', but I call it 'Tender-loving-care' 
Plus JB, what can I do if the child loves me more than he loves you? *evil laugh*
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You're something else *laughs*, sometimes I wonder how much these doctors and researchers have to study in order to come to these conclusions.
I heard about this topic before and there is proof of that since a newborn child can recognize the mother's smell and voice within hours!!! how they can possible know it? obviously they know it since they were in the womb. Isn't that wonderful?
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When I was expecting my eldest Son (nearly 18 years ago), everybody had to attend 'parent craft classes', which was basically an A-Z of pregnancy and early child hood needs, one of the lessons included lying on a mat in a darkened quiet room, playing a tape recorder held to your stomach for the baby to 'listen to', and you had to alternate between the mothers voice and classical music.
Sounds pretty weird I know, but in those days the classes were mandatory, I laugh about it now, and I don't know whether this technique worked or not, but my Son does like classical music!
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Unborn Children Prefer Mother's Voice
Research: Unborn Babies Recognize, Process Speech at 29 Weeks
Fascinating new research shows that unborn children can recognize and process varying forms of speech at 29 weeks, even before speech centers appear. The processing is advanced enough, for example, to allow them to differentiate between male and female voices.
Keith Barrington, a neonatologist and clinical researcher and chief of service at Sainte Justine University Health Center in Montreal, writes more about the new study Ref. Source 5
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