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There are many studies about prenatal stimulus, including classical vs other genres, music vs noise, talking vs music, and silence vs music and talking....
And the conclusions are that talking and music, no matter the genre, happen to be the most effective in helping increase brain development in not only gestating fetuses, but increase feeding speed after birth, lessening pain for the mother during birth, and during the first 5 years of brain development for children. The parts of the brain impacted most were memory, spatial understanding, voice recognition, and the social/conceptual areas of the brain.
People prefer to say classical music, probably because of the soothing tones, rare jumps/dips in decibel, and its good as background music while the mother does what she needs to do. Some say that the unusual timing and rhythm in classical music, rarely ever even coming close to the usual 3/4 or 4/4 time we expect in modern pop music, may help a developing child... but as far as I know, that is yet to be proven.... but what IS proven.. is that music (no matter the sort) seems to help ALL things grow.. from human brains to plants... *shrug* life is funny, art is better.
As long as the music is more song than noise (lots of random noise actually retards brain growth in MANY studies) and does not jump in decibel often (which pretty much IS noise to a fetus) will be just fine and dandy. I might like metal,.. but I still wouldnt subject a growing fetus to Slayer or Gwar.. ya know? hehe. Just dont expect them to like what you play by the time they’re 12.
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