ReviewPediatric research2020
Early vocal contact and music in the NICU: new insights into preventive interventions.
Review in Pediatric research, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT04759573 (Effects of Early Vocal Contact), which is not on this map. Cited by 33 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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The trial behind it
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Effects of Early Vocal Contact (EVC) in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: A Multi-centre, Randomized Clinical Trial
Who cites it
33 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 56 citations in OpenAlex.
- Effect of Musical Stimulation on Placental Programming and Neurodevelopment Outcome of Preterm Infants: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Pooled it
- Randomized clinical trial investigating the effect of consistent, developmentally-appropriate, and evidence-based multisensory exposures in the NICU.Journal of perinatology : official journal of the California Perinatal Association · 2021Trial
- Preterm infants with severe brain injury demonstrate unstable physiological responses during maternal singing with music therapy: a randomized controlled study.European journal of pediatrics · 2021Trial
- Early development of cortical networks is modulated by Family Nurture Intervention: a multicenter replication study.Pediatric research · 2026Article
- Effects of Music Genres Reflecting Maternal Listening Preferences During Pregnancy on Distress Markers in Italian Preterm Infants.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Humming and Homeostasis: Insights from Infants, Mothers, Mantras and Caregiving.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
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- Challenges and limitations of evaluating the efficacy of music intervention for preterm infants: auditory development, methodological heterogeneity, medical complexity, parental involvement and environmental barriers.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Article
- The auditory environment drives superior temporal sulcus depth in the neonatal period.Brain structure & function · 2025Article
- Effects of maternal singing or voice on language and social-emotional development of preterm infants: protocol for a systematic review.BMJ open · 2025Article
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- Enhancing Neurodevelopmental Outcomes in Preterm Infants Through the Sensory Development Care Map.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Longitudinal functional brain connectivity maturation in premature newborn infants: Modulatory influence of early music enrichment.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Skin-to-skin care (SSC) for term and preterm infants.Paediatrics & child health · 2024Review
- Les soins peau-à-peau chez les nourrissons à terme et prématurés.Paediatrics & child health · 2024Review
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- Emotion Recognition in Preterm and Full-Term School-Age Children.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Use of Musical Intervention in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of a Developing Country: A Pilot Pre-Post Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Skin-to-skin SDF positioning: The key to intersubjective intimacy between mother and very preterm newborn-A pilot matched-pair case-control study.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Protocol for a prospective multicenter longitudinal randomized controlled trial (CALIN) of sensory-tonic stimulation to foster parent child interactions and social cognition in very premature infants.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Article
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8 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
It is now clearly established that the environment and the sensory stimuli, particularly during the perinatal period, have an impact on infant's development. During the last trimester of gestation, activity-dependent plasticity shapes the fetal brain, and prematurity has been shown to alter the typical developmental trajectories. In this delicate period, preventive interventions aiming at modulating these developmental trajectories through activity-inducing interventions are currently underway to be tested. The purpose of this review paper is to describe the potentialities of early vocal contact and music on the preterm infant's brain development, and their potential beneficial effect on early development. Scientific evidence supports a behavioral orientation of the newborn to organized sounds, such as those of voice and music, and recent neuroimaging studies further confirm full cerebral processing of music as multisensory stimuli. However, the impact of long-term effects of music exposure and early vocal contact on preterm infants' long-term neurodevelopment needs be further investigated. To conclude, it is necessary to establish the neuroscientific bases of the early perception and the long-term effects of music and early vocal contact on the premature newborns' development. Scientific projects are currently on the way to fill this gap in knowledge.
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