{"id":223371,"date":"2025-10-14T03:35:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:35:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/moms-voice-boosts-language-center-development-in-preemies-brains-study-finds"},"modified":"2025-10-14T03:35:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T08:35:26","slug":"moms-voice-boosts-language-center-development-in-preemies-brains-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/moms-voice-boosts-language-center-development-in-preemies-brains-study-finds","title":{"rendered":"Mom\u2019s voice boosts language-center development in preemies\u2019 brains, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/E5hDhWSmeoY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Hearing the sound of their mother\u2019s voice promotes development of language pathways in a premature baby\u2019s brain, according to a new Stanford Medicine-led study.<\/p>\n<p>During the study, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/journals\/human-neuroscience\/articles\/10.3389\/fnhum.2025.1673471\/full\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Frontiers in Human Neuroscience<\/i>, hospitalized preemies regularly heard recordings of their mothers reading to them. At the end of the study, MRI brain scans showed that a key language pathway was more mature than that of preemies in a <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/control+group\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">control group<\/a> who did not hear the recordings. It is the first randomized controlled trial of such an intervention in <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/early+development\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">early development<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first causal evidence that a speech experience is contributing to <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/brain+development\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">brain development<\/a> at this very young age,\u201d said the lead author, Katherine Travis, Ph.D., who was an assistant professor at Stanford Medicine when the study was conducted and is now an assistant professor at Weill Cornell Medical School and Burke Neurological Institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hearing the sound of their mother\u2019s voice promotes development of language pathways in a premature baby\u2019s brain, according to a new Stanford Medicine-led study. During the study, which is published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, hospitalized preemies regularly heard recordings of their mothers reading to them. At the end of the study, MRI brain scans [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-223371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223371","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}