Summary: Hearing their mother’s voice may help premature babies develop stronger language pathways in the brain. In a groundbreaking study, preemies who regularly listened to recordings of their ...

Hearing the sound of their mother's voice promotes development of language pathways in a premature baby's brain, according to ...

A group of Stanford researchers are harnessing the sound of mothers' voices for infants born weeks or months prematurely, ...

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