Fetal learning: a critical review

James, David

doi:10.1002/icd.653

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“…There are many research papers about fetal memory and learning [9], [10]. Particularly, sound and taste memory is frequently tested and confirmed.…”

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A human fetus development simulation: Self-organization of behaviors through tactile sensation

Mori¹,

Kuniyoshi

2010

2010 IEEE 9th International Conference on Development and Learning

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Recent progresses of ultrasound imaging technology have led observations of fetal intrauterine behavior and a perspective of intrauterine learning. Understanding fetal behavior in uterus is important for medical cares for prenatal infants, because the intervention like "nesting" or "swaddling" in NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) is based on a perspective of intrauterine learning. However, fetal behavior is not explained sufficiently by the perspective. In this study, we have proposed a hypothesis in which two fetal behaviors, Isolated leg/arm movements and hand and face contact, emerge within self-organization of interaction among an uterine environment, a fetal body, and a nervous system. through tactile sensation in uterus. We have conducted computer experiments with a simple musculoskeletal model in uterus and a whole body fetal musculoskeletal model with tactile for the hypothesis. We confirmed that tactile sensation induces motions in the experiments of the simple model, and the fetal model with human like tactile distribution have behaved with the two motions similar to real fetal behaviors. Our experiments indicated that fetal intrauterine learning is possibly core concept for the fetal motor development.

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“…There are many research papers about fetal memory and learning [9], [10]. Particularly, sound and taste memory is frequently tested and confirmed.…”

Section: A Backgroundmentioning

confidence: 99%

A human fetus development simulation: Self-organization of behaviors through tactile sensation

Mori¹,

Kuniyoshi

2010

2010 IEEE 9th International Conference on Development and Learning

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“…Research has only recently begun to understand whether physical interaction is an important tool for learning mathematics (Alibali & Nathan, 2012). However, there is considerable research demonstrating that interacting with the physical world can generally augment one's internal mental representations (Goldin-Meadow & Beilock, 2010;James, 2010) and some recent research suggests that physical actions may improve children's early mathematics ability (Fischer & Brugger, 2011;Skwarchuk, Sowinski, & LeFevre, 2014). Given that touchscreen computers require physical interaction for knowledge acquisition to occur, the primary research question in this study is whether the physical interactions used while learning mathematics on a touchscreen device affect one's conceptual understanding of mathematics, or in other words, do gestures matter?…”

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Do gestures matter? The implications of using touchscreen devices in mathematics instruction

Dubé

McEwen

2015

Learning and Instruction

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“…Infant HR change has been employed to determine detection, discrimination, memory and learning, often using an habituation or familiarization-novelty paradigm (see James, 2009;Kawai, 2009). The paradigm has its theoretical and experiential roots in the work of Sokolov (1963), who described three generalized responses to stimulation: orientation, adaptation and defensive reflexes.…”

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Exploring the relationship between fetal heart rate and cognition

Kisilevsky

Hains

2010

Infant and Child Development

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A relationship between fetal heart rate (HR) and cognition is explored within the context of infant, child and adult studies where the association is well established. Lack of direct access to the fetus and maturational changes limit research paradigms and response measures for fetal studies. Nevertheless, neural regulation of HR shows a number of parallels with adult regulation, albeit immature. Discrimination, habituation and learning of auditory stimuli provide evidence of a relationship between fetal HR and cognition. Fetuses discriminate speech sounds, demonstrating a HR decrease to a stimulus change, indicating attention/ orienting. They show habituation, a novelty response and dishabituation of a HR response to complex sounds and faster habituation over intervals of 10 min and 24 h, indicating memory. Differential HR response to the familiar mother's versus a novel stranger's voice and to a familiar versus novel passage demonstrate learning, suggesting that neural networks sensitive to the properties of ubiquitous environmental sounds are being formed before birth.

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Fetal learning: a critical review

Cited by 79 publications

References 55 publications

A human fetus development simulation: Self-organization of behaviors through tactile sensation

A human fetus development simulation: Self-organization of behaviors through tactile sensation

Do gestures matter? The implications of using touchscreen devices in mathematics instruction

Exploring the relationship between fetal heart rate and cognition

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