ArticleDevelopmental science2021
The duration of intrauterine development influences discrimination of speech prosody in infants.
Article in Developmental science, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Verbal Episodic Processing in Newborns.eLife · 2026Article
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- Social orienting in prematurely born preschoolers: a case control study showing altered neural tuning towards voices, not faces.Molecular autism · 2025Article
- Lateralization of Neural Speech Discrimination at Birth Is a Predictor for Later Language Development.Developmental science · 2025Article
- Association between neural prosody discrimination and language abilities in toddlers: a functional near-infrared spectroscopy study.BMC pediatrics · 2024Article
- "Every breath you take": evaluating sound levels and acoustic characteristics of various neonatal respiratory support and ventilation modalities.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Article
- Probing the Impact of Prematurity on Segmentation Abilities in the Context of Bilingualism.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Fetal temporal sulcus depth asymmetry has prognostic value for language development.Communications biology · 2023Article
- The duration of intrauterine development influences discrimination of speech prosody in infants.Developmental science · 2021Article
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Abstract
Auditory speech discrimination is essential for normal language development. Children born preterm are at greater risk of language developmental delays. Using functional near-infrared spectroscopy at term-equivalent age, the present study investigated early discrimination of speech prosody in 62 neonates born between week 23 and 41 of gestational age (GA). We found a significant positive correlation between GA at birth and neural discrimination of forward versus backward speech at term-equivalent age. Cluster analysis identified a critical threshold at around week 32 of GA, pointing out the existence of subgroups. Infants born before week 32 of GA exhibited a significantly different pattern of hemodynamic response to speech stimuli compared to infants born at or after week 32 of GA. Thus, children born before the GA of 32 weeks are especially vulnerable to early speech discrimination deficits. To support their early language development, we therefore suggest a close follow-up and additional speech and language therapy especially in the group of children born before week 32 of GA.
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