Fetal sensitivity to properties of maternal speech and language

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 59-71

  Kisilevsky, B S ^a,b   Hains, S M J ^a   Brown, C A ^a   Lee, C T ^c   Cowperthwaite, B ^b   Stutzman, S S ^a   Swansburg, M L ^a   Lee, K ^c   Xie, X ^d   Huang, H ^d   Ye, H H ^d   Zhang, K ^d   Wang, Z ^d  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b KINGSTON GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Audition; Fetus; Language; Learning; Speech; Voice

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDIO RECORDING; CHINESE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FATHER; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MOTHER; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; GESTATIONAL AGE; HEART RATE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; PREGNANCY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION; TIME FACTORS; VOICE;

EID: 58149460697     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.infbeh.2008.10.002     Document Type: Article

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