Estimated cardiac vagal tone predicts fetal responses to mother's and stranger's voices

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 543-547

  Smith, Laura S ^a   Dmochowski, Pawel A ^a   Muir, Darwin W ^a   Kisilevsky, Barbara S ^a  

^a ALGONQUIN COLLEGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

High frequency heart rate variability; Human fetus; Memory; Vagal tone; Voice recognition

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MOTHER; PREDICTION; RECOGNITION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VAGUS TONE; VOICE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ATTENTION; CARDIOTOCOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FETAL MOVEMENT; HEART; HEART RATE, FETAL; HUMANS; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREGNANCY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH PERCEPTION; TAPE RECORDING; TIME FACTORS; VAGUS NERVE; VOICE;

EID: 34547470084     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20229     Document Type: Article

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