How a mother’s voice shapes her baby’s developing brain | Pediatric and Laser Dentistry

From Aeon.co, Kate Fehlhaber | Oct. 6, 2016

It is no surprise that a child prefers its mother’s voice to those of strangers. Beginning in the womb, a foetus’s developing auditory pathways sense the sounds and vibrations of its mother. Soon after birth, a child can identify its mother’s voice and will work to hear her voice better over unfamiliar female voices.

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