Prenatal Language Exposure Creates Familiarity in Newborns, Study Finds
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Summary
A scientific study demonstrates that brief prenatal exposure to a foreign language can make it familiar to newborns. Researchers played a story to fetuses during the last trimester of pregnancy, then measured brain responses in newborns 10-78 hours after birth when the same story was played in multiple languages. The study shows that even minimal prenatal language exposure creates neural familiarity that persists after birth.
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Between 10 and 78 hours after birth, the researchers played the same story again for the newborns, this time in all three languages
Measuring brain response to language
Une étude montre qu’une brève écoute prénatale d’une langue étrangère suffirait à la rendre familière à la naissance.
