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Babies Learn to Recognize Words in the Womb!
Be careful what you say around a pregnant woman. The growing fetus can hear sounds from the outside world—and can understand them well enough to retain memories of them after birth.
Earlier studies indicated that newborns can recognize the theme song from their mother's favorite tv serial/soap opera. Actually, when the newborn baby was crying, playing the theme song (not any other song) stoppeds the cries!
A research team gave expectant women a recording to play several times a week during their last few months of pregnancy, which included a made-up word, "tatata," repeated many times and interspersed with music. Sometimes the middle syllable was varied, with a different pitch or vowel sound. By the time the babies were born, they had heard the made-up word, on average, more than 25,000 times. And when they were tested after birth, these infants' brains recognized the word and its variations.
The western world is only now becoming aware of a phenomenon that is already folklore in our country!
Be careful what you say around a pregnant woman. The growing fetus can hear sounds from the outside world—and can understand them well enough to retain memories of them after birth.
Earlier studies indicated that newborns can recognize the theme song from their mother's favorite tv serial/soap opera. Actually, when the newborn baby was crying, playing the theme song (not any other song) stoppeds the cries!
A research team gave expectant women a recording to play several times a week during their last few months of pregnancy, which included a made-up word, "tatata," repeated many times and interspersed with music. Sometimes the middle syllable was varied, with a different pitch or vowel sound. By the time the babies were born, they had heard the made-up word, on average, more than 25,000 times. And when they were tested after birth, these infants' brains recognized the word and its variations.
The western world is only now becoming aware of a phenomenon that is already folklore in our country!