Prenatal maternal speech influences newborns' perception of speech sounds

By A. Decasper, M. Spence. 1986

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Early Experience & Multisensory Perceptual Narrowing (2014, background): “Furthermore, fetuses can hear by the third trimester (DeCasper & Spence, 1986).”
Preference and processing: The role of speech affect in early spoken word recognition (2004, background): “Social significance or intrinsic appeal of stimuli are manipulated in studies of preference, not processing (DeCasper & Fifer, 1980; DeCasper & Spence, 1986; Mehler et al., 1988).”
The evolution of verbal behavior in children. (2006, unknown): “By arranging natural establishing operations, Donley and Greer (1993) induced first instances of conversation between several severely delayed adolescents who had never before been known to emit conversation with their peers.”
The development of infant learning about specific face-voice relations. (2005, background): “Fetuses attend to sounds and voices toward the end of gestation (Birnholtz & Benacerraf, 1983; Querleu, Renard, Boutteville, & Crepin, 1989), and infants show prenatal auditory learning of the maternal voice and prosody of speech (e.g., DeCasper & Fifer, 1980; DeCasper & Spence, 1986).”
Fetal Brain Behavior and Cognitive Development (2000, methodology): “This has been demonstrated through preference tests using a nonnutritive sucking paradigm and heart rate deceleration measures (DeCasper & Fifer, 1980; DeCasper & Spence, 1986; DeCasper et al., 1994; Lecanuet et al., 1989).”
The development of infant intersensory perception: advantages of a comparative convergent-operations approach. (2000, background): “…already had a great deal of prenatal experience, and the nature and type of this experience must be taken into account when seeking explanations of the origins of human behavior (see, e.g., DeCasper & Fifer, 1980; DeCasper & Spence, 1986; Fifer & Moon, 1989; Marlier, Schaal, & Soussignan, 1998).”
Doing things with music (2011, background): “In this stable environment, the prenatal infant is already an active perceiver, developing preferences for stimuli such as their mothers’ voice (DeCasper and Fifer 1980), familiar stories and melodies (DeCasper and Spence 1986), and the sound of their native language (Moon et al. 1993).”
The Innate Mind: Structure and Contents (2005, background): “This explains, for example, newborns’ preference for stories repeatedly read to them in the final trimester of pregnancy (DeCasper & Spence, 1986).”