{"id":139881,"date":"2022-05-27T20:24:01","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T01:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/early-sound-exposure-in-the-womb-shapes-the-auditory-system"},"modified":"2022-05-27T20:24:01","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T01:24:01","slug":"early-sound-exposure-in-the-womb-shapes-the-auditory-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/05\/early-sound-exposure-in-the-womb-shapes-the-auditory-system","title":{"rendered":"Early Sound Exposure in the Womb Shapes the Auditory System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/early-sound-exposure-in-the-womb-shapes-the-auditory-system.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Summary: Muffled sounds experienced in the womb prime the brain\u2019s ability to interpret some sounds and may be key for auditory development.<\/p>\n<p>Source: MIT<\/p>\n<p>Inside the womb, fetuses can begin to hear some sounds around 20 weeks of gestation. However, the input they are exposed to is limited to low-frequency sounds because of the muffling effect of the amniotic fluid and surrounding tissues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary: Muffled sounds experienced in the womb prime the brain\u2019s ability to interpret some sounds and may be key for auditory development. Source: MIT Inside the womb, fetuses can begin to hear some sounds around 20 weeks of gestation. However, the input they are exposed to is limited to low-frequency sounds because of the muffling [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}