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Infant Auditory Processing and Event-related Brain Oscillations
Published on: July 1, 2015
The role of early auditory development in attachment and communication
1Department of Psychology, Pacific Lutheran University, 12180 Park Avenue South, Tacoma, WA 98447, USA. mooncm@plu.edu
Abstract:
Auditory perception and learning take place during the third trimester of gestation. Fetuses and newborns who lack typical auditory experience can go on to develop typical socioemotional attachment and language, given a supportive environment. For hospitalized preterm infants in developmentally sensitive neonatal intensive care units, detrimental effects of deviant early auditory experience may be remediated by later experience, but much is unknown about the causes of language deficits of prematurity. Prenatal auditory stimulation programs that incorporate audio speakers against the maternal belly should be discouraged because of possible overstimulation effects on the developing auditory system and sleep/wake state organization.
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