title: The role of early auditory development in attachment and communication.
abstract: Auditory perception and learning take place during the third trimester of gestation. Fetuses and newborns who lack typical auditory experience can go on to develop typical socioemotional attachment and language, given a supportive environment. For hospitalized preterm infants in developmentally sensitive neonatal intensive care units, detrimental effects of deviant early auditory experience may be remediated by later experience, but much is unknown about the causes of language deficits of prematurity. Prenatal auditory stimulation programs that incorporate audio speakers against the maternal belly should be discouraged because of possible overstimulation effects on the developing auditory system and sleep/wake state organization.
authors: Department of Psychology, Pacific Lutheran University, 12180 Park Avenue South, Tacoma, WA 98447, USA. mooncm@plu.edu
authors: Christine
authors: C
authors: Moon
mesh_terms: D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D003142:Communication; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D009769:Object Attachment; D013997:Time Factors