ArticleFrontiers in neuroscience2022
Auditory Processing of the Brain Is Enhanced by Parental Singing for Preterm Infants.
Article in Frontiers in neuroscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT03795454 (Singing Kangaroos - Infant Care With Combined Auditory Intervention and Kangaroo Care), which is not on this map. Cited by 7 papers.
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Singing Kangaroos - Infant Care With Combined Auditory Intervention and Kangaroo Care
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 16 citations in OpenAlex.
- Humming and Homeostasis: Insights from Infants, Mothers, Mantras and Caregiving.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Music-based research in neonatal intensive care units requires guidelines grounded in developmental neurology and responsive to the individual needs of preterm infants.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- Parental singing during kangaroo care: parents' experiences of singing to their preterm infant in the NICU.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- Maternal singing and speech have beneficial effects on preterm infant's general movements at term equivalent age and at 3 months: an RCT.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- The effect of early postnatal auditory stimulation on outcomes in preterm infants.Pediatric research · 2024Review
- Early parental vocal contact in neonatal units: rationale and clinical guidelines for implementation.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Review
- Exposure to bilingual or monolingual maternal speech during pregnancy affects the neurophysiological encoding of speech sounds in neonates differently.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
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6 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.
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Abstract
As the human auditory system is highly malleable in infancy, perinatal risk factors, such as preterm birth, may affect auditory development. In comparison to healthy full-term infants, preterm infants show abnormal auditory brain responses at term age, which may have long-term detrimental outcomes. To achieve an optimal neonatal care environment for preterm-born infants, many early interventions have been developed. Musical interventions developed for neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) have shown beneficial effects on vital functions and weight gain of preterm infants and might also influence basic auditory processing and thereby enhance outcomes. In the present study, we tested the effect of parental singing during kangaroo care on auditory processing of standardized audio stimuli. Preterm infants (born between 24 and 32 weeks of gestation) were randomized to singing intervention (
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