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  • Mother’s Voice Shapes Language Pathways in Preemies’ Brains, Stanford Study Finds

    Mother’s Voice Shapes Language Pathways in Preemies’ Brains, Stanford Study Finds

    Overview of the Findings A Stanford Medicine–led study published online October 13 in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience provides the first randomized evidence that exposure to a mother’s voice can promote language development in very premature infants. The research found that regular recordings of mothers reading to their hospitalized preemies helped advance the maturation of a…

  • Mother’s Voice Boosts Language Pathways in Preemies’ Brains

    Mother’s Voice Boosts Language Pathways in Preemies’ Brains

    New Evidence Links Maternal Speech to Brain M development in Premature Infants Hearing the sound of a mother’s voice can shape the developing brains of premature babies, according to a Stanford Medicine-led study. The randomized trial, published online in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, found that regular exposure to recordings of mothers reading to their hospitalized…